{"id":43,"date":"2010-02-09T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-04-19T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:46:14","slug":"daycare-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/daycare-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Daycare Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we visited two potential daycares for Baby D; Children’s Courtyard<\/a> and Children’s Lighthouse-Heritage<\/a>. There are two more we definitely want to tour, possibly four. The two from\u00a0today are up near home. Of the\u00a0possibly 4 others, 3 are near the\u00a0house, and 1 is downtown, near work. Both facilties we toured today\u00a0are new facilities, very nicely appointed, and the staff seemed quite nice and knowledgeable. They’re close in price, and I feel confident that he’ll get more than adequate care at either facility. Both facilities get good reviews on the neighborhood message boards. With that said, I still left both places rather teary-eyed.<\/p>\n

Let me make this very clear; I didn’t feel sad because of anything I saw or felt at either place we saw today. I felt sad as a Mommy. Baby D’s not even here for two and a half more months, yet we’re already having to look for someone else to take care of him the majority of the day during the week. This makes me feel so sad. I’m worried already about all the things\u00a0I think\u00a0I’ll miss. I know I’m not the first Mommy to go through this, and that all working parents feel this type of guilt about leaving their precious ones with someone else–whether it’s a bigger childcare facility, a smaller in-home daycare, or with a\u00a0family member. My question to anyone out there reading this is, did you feel like this before your baby was ever born?\u00a0Does it ever get easier? When? And if it doesn’t, when do you heed that voice and make other tough decisions? (Okay, so that’s more than one question, but give a hormonal pregnant woman a\u00a0break, k?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we visited two potential daycares for Baby D; Children’s Courtyard and Children’s Lighthouse-Heritage. There are two more we definitely want to tour, possibly four. The two from\u00a0today are up near home. Of the\u00a0possibly 4 others, 3 are near the\u00a0house, and 1 is downtown, near work. Both facilties we toured today\u00a0are new facilities, very nicely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-d-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}