Daycare

Don accepted a coaching job for 9th grade girls basketball in Higginsville, which is even further east than Lexington where he teaches. He's been wanting to get some coaching experience for a while, especially with the trouble he had finding a job teaching social studies-- they often expect teachers to be able to coach something. The timing is not so good, with all that we have going on right now. With him having practices every day, and some games Tues. and Thurs. nights, we were put in a position of what to do with Jordon because there is no way he would last late into the evening at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Also it has become more difficult working around Mom and Dad's medical appts., so we found a daycare we can take Jordon to on Tues. and Thurs. That way hopefully it will be easier on Mom, as she will be watching him now on Mon. and Fri., and I will have him on Wed. It also gives them more flexibility with scheduling appts. on days they don't have Jordon.

He started last week Tues., and I think things went better than we expected. Aside from the initial wailing and me having bad parent syndrome the first day, I think things are going ok. The first day he seemed to get a little attached to his teacher, Jamie. I was afraid they wouldn't be able to get the kid to take naps since he is such a sleep fighter, but they have managed to get it done. He's already got a runny nose, but I guess that will be part of it with being around all the other kids with snotty noses. They also called me Thurs. to bring in some Tylenol 'cause they thought he was teething... which could explain why he was up the previous 2 nights wailing for 2 hours. Hopefully he will continue to adjust ok and this will be a good schedule for the little guy, as well as providing coverage for Don's coaching gig and giving all of us more flexibility. Bad news is that to accomodate Don's practices before school, our house is up at 4:15 am several days a week to get Jordon to Grandma's and Don to practice by 6:00 am. Insanity....