Advice needed:
May. 14th, 2007 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ste_noniI have rewritten this thing 3 times so far. So frustrating.
I need to go to this 7-week course for my new job - July 9-Aug 24. (Of course, I have to go to practically the only other place on the planet that is hotter and humid-er than PR in the middle of the summer!)I’m not willing to leave Ellie with Joe for 7 weeks and he’s happy I feel that way. He could handle it just fine, but that’s too long for me to be away from her.
Originally, the plan was that my MIL would come stay with me in the hotel during that time and watch Ellie during the day. However, Joe thinks his mom won’t handle that very well and to be honest, I can’t really see it either.
I’m hoping the daycare on the base will have room for Ellie. She’s #3 on the list and the director sounded like it was a possibility. I’m a bit anxious about sending Ellie somewhere that I haven’t been able to check out, but all the other federal daycares I’ve seen, including her current one, have been top-notch. However, hope doesn’t guarantee her a place.
One of the options, though, is for Ellie to go spend some time with my parents. I will be spending the 5 days before the training starts with my family in Indianapolis. She seems very comfortable with my parents and I am very happy about how they all get along. But the thing is that I’ve never spent a night away from Ellie. Having her away for a week for the first time ever seems pretty extreme. Am I being too protective?
This doesn’t answer my over all question because the truth is that there is no way I’m letting Ellie go for more than a week tops and I still have to find a place for her for the other 6 weeks.
Ugghhh – this work/parent thing is hard!
I need to go to this 7-week course for my new job - July 9-Aug 24. (Of course, I have to go to practically the only other place on the planet that is hotter and humid-er than PR in the middle of the summer!)I’m not willing to leave Ellie with Joe for 7 weeks and he’s happy I feel that way. He could handle it just fine, but that’s too long for me to be away from her.
Originally, the plan was that my MIL would come stay with me in the hotel during that time and watch Ellie during the day. However, Joe thinks his mom won’t handle that very well and to be honest, I can’t really see it either.
I’m hoping the daycare on the base will have room for Ellie. She’s #3 on the list and the director sounded like it was a possibility. I’m a bit anxious about sending Ellie somewhere that I haven’t been able to check out, but all the other federal daycares I’ve seen, including her current one, have been top-notch. However, hope doesn’t guarantee her a place.
One of the options, though, is for Ellie to go spend some time with my parents. I will be spending the 5 days before the training starts with my family in Indianapolis. She seems very comfortable with my parents and I am very happy about how they all get along. But the thing is that I’ve never spent a night away from Ellie. Having her away for a week for the first time ever seems pretty extreme. Am I being too protective?
This doesn’t answer my over all question because the truth is that there is no way I’m letting Ellie go for more than a week tops and I still have to find a place for her for the other 6 weeks.
Ugghhh – this work/parent thing is hard!