Nursery School

Usually Anna cooks in her kitchen while I'm making dinner, but tonight she was "going shopping and to the ice cream shop" dressed as me!

This morning Anna & I checked out a nursery program for her for next fall. Ideally I would like to do just a mom's day out program with her maybe 1-2 half-days per week, but I haven't come across anything like that here. This is a brand new nursery and it is less than 2 km from our villa. It is Australian-run and uses the Australian & British curriculum. The fee structure is set up so the minimum is 3 days per week, but I imagine I could pay for 3 days and send her only 2 if that's what really felt right.

Part of me thinks it's silly to send your 2.5 year old out into the world when you are a stay-at-home mom, but another part of me thinks she'd really benefit from the socialization-aspect of it and for having a "big kid" thing to do after Baby arrives. Also, I think I'll really want to have some of that one-on-one time with Baby Girl like I had with Anna. Anna would go from about 8:30-11:30 or 12:00 2-3 days per week.

We can afford it so we will fill out the registration forms to get on the list for fall and give it a go. If she can't stand it we won't push it. If she loves then we'll all be glad we tried it!