It is entirely possible that I have gone insane. Please keep that in mind while you read this!
Henry & I did the trial at White Lodge this morning and he liked it (he has actually wanted to go to every school we've seen--no matter how dark and tiny or how few toys there are). I was feeling OK about it because he can go three days instead of five, it's closer to Woodlands than Rain Trees, and the facility is nice. Just as we were leaving, however, I found out that both the teacher and assistant are leaving March 15. (In one way, this was OK because I wasn't that impressed with them so whatever; but what if I really didn't like the replacements?) I decided to go ahead and chalked up my hesitation to feeling guilty about sending Henry to school when he doesn't "have" to go.
So, on the way home, Henry & I talked about how he'd go to White Lodge for an hour by himself in the morning and how fun that would be. When I got home, I decided to send an email to Blue House to tell them to take Henry off of the wait list because I knew I couldn't handle it if they called next week to tell me he had a spot. I was feeling kind of bummed but I wasn't really sure WHY. Was it because I'd be losing my buddy three days a week or was it because White Lodge wasn't really awesome? Was it because it was raining again?
About an hour after my email went out, I got a phone call from Blue House. They had just had a meeting that morning about adding two more kids to each of the classes and had decided to go forward with this plan at the start of the next term in April. But, upon seeing my email they wanted to make sure they didn't lose Henry (he was number one on the wait list). Of course, I was super excited about this but I had just signed up with White Lodge! I had given them the information to set up payment with Craig's company already! Ack! I called Craig in a panic and asked him to call his contact to find out if they'd already started on the payment and I called White Lodge to tell them to hold the presses (I told them that I was feeling uncertain about the teacher switch, which was true). Fortunately, no payments had gone through or even been set up yet (what a relief!). I called Blue House back and we decided to go over everything tomorrow during Henry's music class.
I can't explain why NOW, but I'm still feeling like I'm on an emotional rollercoaster. Blue House said he could start February 18 (mid-term) or possibly earlier. Henry is totally confused now, too. Now he's NOT going to go to White Lodge by himself tomorrow (he was looking forward to this) and instead is going to music as usual and to check out the Blue House classroom and meet that teacher.
