In chatting with my cousin the other day, I realized that we are probably way behind in the preschool game. Mads’ is only 13+ months! There are two lovely preschools in the confines of Miraloma Park – ideal location! The word is that Mads’ current day care is going to start a preschool program – I hope that they get certified soon! Or in time for Mads to attend. That, would be even MORE ideal! I found a site where they have preschool reviews that include data like: other schools applied to, school graduates have gone on to…oy!
There’s a blog I read frequently – and it’s got me thinking that a move down the peninsula wouldn’t be so bad after all. Citymama paints such a pretty picture of life in the ‘burbs – it’s just got me wondering.
Last night, S was working late, so it was just the girls at home. It was probably one of the nicer nights, too. We didn’t do anything special, but it was just…nice. I picked up Mads at daycare and we headed off to the grocery store to pick up a few things. Surprisingly, Mads didn’t grab for stuff from the cart, but rather pointed at the signs hanging from the ceiling and the balloons floating above her and had her own conversations. I prepped everyone’s dinner but mine and got to tidy up the kitchen while Mads ate – this self-feeding thing is GREAT! After dinner, we walked I followed Mads around the house, carefully played around her new favorite spot (hearth/fireplace) in the house (to do: buy that darn fireplace screen) and read books.
Reading books is our new favorite activity. Mads will go pick a book, hand it to me and then proceed to sit in my lap while I read her the book. (I’ve read First Book of Sushi way too many times this week.) She’ll even “read” books on her own – which is something I hope that will carry over into her childhood.
After a quick bath, Mads wanted to play in the shower instead, a change into jammies, we were relaxing on the couch with a bottle of Clover dairy’s finest Organic Vitamin D milk and Jakers! (animated series about little farm animals growing up in rural Ireland – how is that not cute?) on the toob. At 8.30p I put her down to sleep without a fight (surprisingly) and I putzed around until Grey’s Anatomy was on. (Will watch Ugly Betty later this weekend.)
Nights like that, I’m starting to wonder why I’m at work all day.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Well hello there! Come, come to burbs! Come to the dark side, mwahahaaaa! 🙂 We moved from SF to the peninsula 9 mo ago and no regrets, although preschools are still tough to come by. Not anywhere near as bad as in SF, but here it’s mostly because I don’t know what all of them are…Thank for linking to me! Have a great weekend!
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