Daycare Decision!

The decision on where to send your infant to daycare is a difficult one - I'm sure many working moms/parents know the feeling!  You are trying to find someone that you trust with this precious little life that you love more than anything - and in our case, when she is so young, starting around 2 months of age. 

I had a pretty difficult time with this - throughout the last few months, I have put off finding names for daycare options in town, then I put off emailing or calling them once I had a list of names, and then of course after we met with a few, I put off calling them back for a few weeks.  We decided to go with the at home daycare route for a few reasons...1) I really like the smaller size of at home day cares and 2) this option fit into our budget a little bit better :).

We ended up interviewing 3 people all together....the first 2 were pretty good.  Overall, they had many great things about them and how they run their day care.  And, I think either of them would have done a great job in the end.  But, of course, I kept focusing on those couple negative things and couldn't get them out of my mind.  And, when I left the interviews, I just felt uneasy - I didn't leave there with this overwhelming sensation of, "yes, we love that day care!"

I didn't have that great, positive feeling UNTIL....the last interview :)  We interviewed her a few weeks ago - we left her house feeling really excited and happy about who we had just met.  And I must say, after having struggled with this decision for a few months, actually having that happy, positive feeling after the interview definitely told us something.  I emailed her last night to ask if she would be willing to have Annie in early March and she said yes!

I'm so happy that this decision is finally made - and that I feel nothing but good things about our final decision.  While I know nothing will make going back to work easy in March, I am hoping that feeling so good about who is taking care of Annie will make it just a little bit easier :)

Merry Christmas everyone!  3 days to go....