Smidgen updates

[jethrien]

We took yesterday off to look at All The Daycares. Oof. Yes, yes, we should have done this two months ago. I've got a clear favorite; they've got a year waitlist. Sorry, Smidge--just put it in the inevitably long line of ways we'll screw things up for you. Anyway, we'll apply to a couple, and probably try to start him at one (which is ok, he'll be fine, just not as nice) and transfer him over if we ever get de-wait-listed.

Other fun things--I'm apparently putting on weight too fast. I'm supposed to be eating more protein but fewer calories overall. Which is not easy when half the time, I'm famished. Also, ordering lunch out has become almost impossible. With all the food restrictions (lunch meats, sushi, sprouts, soft cheese including goat and feta, restrictions on the type and serving size of fish, salad bars) and then calorie restrictions on top of that, I usually can't eat 90-95% of what's on any given lunch menu. And I'd thought I was doing so well there.

Oh, and I forget if I mentioned--Smidgen learned a new game about two weeks back. It's called "Kick Mommy in the Bladder". It's his new favorite game. (To be fair, kid doesn't have a lot of entertainment options at the moment.) He plays it a lot.

Comments

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

My sympathies, I'm having a similar issues with wedding venues (apparently everyone around here thinks 2-year engagements are somewhere between short and normal). Although wedding venues are much less important than kid care.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yes, although they inspire a very different kind of crazy. With childcare, you have the whole "I don't want to screw up my child for life" thing, yes, but there's also a knowledge that you're going to have to deal with the whole package--including the bill--every day for years. And if you make a crappy decision, there are opportunities to change it. It forces a certain level of practicality that's easy to lose for weddings, where you're trying to make a memory for life but you only get one shot. And while everyone wants to tell you how to raise your kids, it's still not the same level of involvement that you get with relatives invested in your wedding. You have to please fewer people.

They are both hard, in different ways. And stress is stress. You don't have to downplay the hardness, really. God knows I'm thrilled I never have to plan my own wedding again. (If something were to ever happen to Chuckro and I were to end up marrying again, I would be going with a much smaller and less elaborate wedding than the one we had. I loved the one we had, I wouldn't really change anything significant at all, but I'm also delighted it's over and I don't have to do it again.)