Firstly, I want to say that we were incredibly lucky to have kept Maryn out of daycare until now. This luxury is due to a group of wonderful people: our respective employers who accommodated our non-traditional maternity/paternity leaves, our friends and family who helped out when we were in a pinch (Codie, GrandMa Jo, Nieka and Judi), and Granny Trish who single-handedly got us through the summer. Thank you all.
On to the daycare specifics. We chose a lovely woman named Jo who is about a 15-20 minute walk from our house. My attempts to get as much of our day-to-day lives within a reasonable walking distance of our house continue. Maryn is currently the only child there under the age of 4 so she'll get a lot of attention. Jo watches a 4 year old (little boy) who is in pre-school half the day, and several kids before and after school. If I remember correctly she has two 1st graders (a boy, and girl)and a 5th grade boy. Her house is actually right across the street from the grammar school Maryn might attend -if we don't home school. Jo tells me the little girl, Alison, is just tickled to have her there and loves to help out. Maryn will be there three days a week.
Mike dropped her off this morning around 7am. I was at work by then devouring my much needed cup of coffee. Jo assured him that we could call as much as we needed to today. I managed to limit my calls to one after lunch and one to Mike after he picked her up at 5:45.
All went well. Apparently she didn't even cry when he dropped her off. My guess is that she was mesmerized by all the little kids waiting to head off to school. She didn't nap great, and although her eating in the morning was a little slow she seemed to make up for it in the afternoon. So, all in all, not a bad 1st day.
What a big girl.
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