Daycare

We are starting daycare next week. We've put it off as long as we can, the wonderful woman we chose for daycare has generously let us wait an extra month before starting (we signed up with her last February), but I can't ask her to wait any longer. And Jay really needs to focus on his work while I need to spend more uninterrupted time applying for jobs. It is really difficult to get much done that requires concentrating when you're watching her. Up until now we've been taking turns getting stuff done, but we can't do that anymore. Each job I apply for requires several hours to find the job, research it, and fill out the appropriate materials and send it in. And I'm reaching the panic stage of being unemployed now. The first few months home were really nice while I recovered physically and was able to spend time with Anja. Now it's just constant stress while our savings disappear to nothing and I still haven't found a job. I really didn't start applying in earnest until last week after I finished my thesis, so there will likely be some lag time before I start to hear back about any of the jobs.

Anyway, I'm a little sad about starting daycare, even though I really like the woman we are using. She is SO excited that Anja is starting next week, so that makes it a little easier. And she is very competent. Much more competent than us, I'm sure :-) She's been running a daycare for 20 years. But I don't want to miss all the new things I'm sure Anja will be doing. I'm pretty sure she's going to start crawling in the next week or so, she's up on all fours all the time now. I know you can't be there for all the milestones, but you can try! So I told her we would start with a schedule of 9-3. That gives me enough time to get some real work done job searching, but she won't be gone all day. We still have to pay for full time, but that's fine. It sure will be quiet around here.

Anja's not worried about starting daycare:


Recently we got some new toys for Anja: some stackable tupperware and this magazine:


They were a big hit. She likes the crinkly noise of the paper and the tupperware is big enough to grab easily and doesn't weigh much. By the way, check out that fuzzy head!

And this week, Laura's baby is as big as a head of cauliflower. Good job Laura!