Day Care

Why in America is day care so expensive? How are two parents suppose to work and not pay a small home mortgage in order to pay for their children to be taken care of during the week? I feel like I am practicing paying for my future college student to a state school. To send Izzy to preschool it is going to cost us over $900 a month. Yes, this is steep, but she has not been in any school for a year and frankly in my educator world, she is behind. She doesn't know all her letters, numbers, can't write her name!!!! She should know all of this and we are willing to pay the piper for her to learn this and be well prepared for kindergarten. However, we do have a second child. She costs us an additional $600 + to send to a home daycare and frankly that is cheap. We cannot wait for Izzy to go to kindergarten so that we will only be paying for part day care. So I end, why does it cost so much to send my beautiful children to day care?

Car Seat

I've been thinking about lately why I haven't moved Rees to a front facing car seat. I remember with Isabella I was counting down the days, I was just so excited for her to see forward. For some reason with Rees, I have never, ever had one ounce of desire to move her to a forward facing car seat. Why is this? Paul thinks that it is me subconsciously thinking about the car accident, which could be, but I am running out of time. Rees is 26.5 pounds and the infant seat is rated to 30 lbs. I could put the Britax backwards but that is a huge car seat. Do I move her? Do I just put the Britax backwards? Why do I not want to move her? I think I need a psychologist. How can one child, I be so excited to move forward to see the world, yet the other I want to keep her confined.