Ketchup

As a working mother I always feel like I am catching up. You can see this in the last entry of this Blog and further in this one. It is frustrating that the things I wan to get done will go undone for weeks some times years because I just don’t have the time or energy. I think it is the same for my husband and so he stays up all hours to get some down time and play games. I wish I had that stamina to stay up that late and get up the next morning.

An up date on the whole Chicken Pox thing……….well they looked kind of like chicken pox behaved not really like chicken pox and because Holly had the vaccination the only way we will be able to tell is if Griffin gets them …………..tick………tick…..tick……..they say ten to twenty-one days we are at 11 from the last possible exposure…..10 more long days to go.

Oh and last Monday exactly a week after her last sick day Holly woke up at 4AM to puke.

And Griffin has a cold again. I don’t think we have had a healthy week since the week of January 3rd.

Griffin had his six-month check up. We have determined that he has a dairy problem….. NO cheese or cow’s milk for me or cheesecake or pizza or ice cream or………..pout I’ll learn, lets just say I am dairy free in dairyland. He has also dropped from 50% to25% in both height and weight from being so sick we think.

Then Friday morning I drop Griffin off at Day Care the very same day care that Holly has been at since she was 3 months old. There is a letter on his cubby telling us that the owners are selling to La Petite Academy. They are a national corporation and often not my favorite of childcare providers. I am hopping that things do not change too much I am most worried about the teachers jumping ship and I am also worried about costs rising as these nice five new centers are now going to be part of now 17 in the area. We chose Room to Grow because of its nature and I specifically steered away from large multi state corporate child cares. They seem to lose the local area's flavor with all the corporate policy stuff. It makes us a little sad.

Check out this “rant” from a friend of mine Family life in 2005. This is more on the same line of the book called “The Two Income Trap”. Money, Jobs, Children, Schools and Child Care expences are not as simple as it should be.