Happy anniversary to juliana and husband!
Curse you, Nora, for the food porn! Now I'm really hungry and there is no curry bar.
Off to buy the new Kanye West CD now.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Spike's Bitches 25 to Life
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Glamcookie - Aug 30, 2005 9:33:42 am PDT #9562 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 9:36:43 am PDT #9563 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, mild panic attack here.
I just called a daycare center recommended by a friend. They don't expect to have an opening in the toddler room until December.
What the hell am I going to do with Annabel if I get this job? I figured I could find a SAHM to look after her for a month or so, but 3-4 months!?
Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 9:37:08 am PDT #9564 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I mean, really, what do people do? I can't be the only person who's ever been in these circumstances.
Aims - Aug 30, 2005 9:38:14 am PDT #9565 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
People put their kids on lists before they are even born. Em is on 2 others that she has been on for over a year and they still haven't called, but I refuse to take her off just in case.
Betsy HP - Aug 30, 2005 9:39:40 am PDT #9566 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
You have to spread a wide net. Childcare-hunting is like job-hunting, you can't assume that one application suffices. You apply everywhere you can think of to get that one slot. Infants are harder to place than toddlers.
Aren't you a member of a church? The mother's organization/nursery staff may well know of somebody appropriate.
P.M. Marc - Aug 30, 2005 9:41:23 am PDT #9567 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Susan, check the U's HR site. I think they have info in addition to the packet they give you.
Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 9:45:27 am PDT #9568 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
People put their kids on lists before they are even born.
I don't have a time machine!
I mean, I can't be the only woman who's tried SAHM/work from home and thought, you know, this isn't working. And you can't place the child before you have a job, because until you have the job you don't have money!
ARRRRRGHHHHHHH!!!@!!!!!!!!
Aims - Aug 30, 2005 9:47:36 am PDT #9569 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I don't have a time machine!
Sillyhead - you shouldda registered for one!! *g*
Take Betsy's suggestion about the church people, look on Craigs List.
askye - Aug 30, 2005 9:51:46 am PDT #9570 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
CHeck your church and see if they have a program, if they don't ask what they recommend. Talk to other Moms, call other churches.
I see two churches close to where I live advertising day care.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 9:55:25 am PDT #9571 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval
CHeck your church and see if they have a program, if they don't ask what they recommend.
The one problem with this is that the church is on Queen Anne while potential work would be in the U District. And getting from QA to the U District is very, very tough.