• health,  milestones,  Uncategorized,  What We've Been Up To

    Leaving him at day care and finding myself.

    Oh hey, here I am trying to pretend that taking selfies comes naturally…oh the awkwardness!   This week marked the Little Mister’s second time at day care.The first time (last week) I put him in for just a half day to ease him in gently. He was so excited when we got there. He wanted to run off and play and he remembered it from the time we’d come to suss it out and sign him up (he’d been allowed to mingle while I talked to the staff and filled out paperwork). He was asking the carers (he calls them his teachers) if he could go play in the cars…

  • just some thoughts,  Parenting

    Starting day care for the first time – the what ifs and the possibilities.

    image The Little Mister starts day care for the first time this week and while I’ve been excited at the thought of free time (ha – let’s see how long that lasts with the possibility of casual work and all the tasks that pile up each week), I am starting to get really nervous! Despite the fact that he is SO ready and I know he’s going to thoroughly enjoy being the little social butterfly that he is, I am still freaking out a little….because I’m me. We’re sending him once a week (with the possibility of twice by the end of the year), to help him prepare for 3…