DH was off on March Break this week, and so I booked us pretty solid to see five child care options for when I go back to work in October. We saw two at home daycares, two daycare "facilities" and one....in between one? I don't know how best to describe it. The all included meals, ranged in price from $28 to $48 per day and all within 10 minutes of home and/or work. We had three other daycare facility places we hoped to see as well, one did not have space and we cancelled the other two after we saw five, we were done.

I mostly post about it my monthly group, but I have had ants in my pants lately and thought I wanted to go back to work sooner (like now) versus taking the year off, probably had some ppd issues in February and really began to struggle a bit this last little while and thought going back to work would help me. I have now realized it's definitely not the answer, worked on sorting a few things out (I hope) and now especially after seeing child care options, I am in no rush to go back to work despite being thrilled with where we chose.

The two daycare facilities we left and as soon as we got out the door or in the car and I thought about leaving LO there I started crying (like sobbing, it was bad), I laugh at myself now, but oh my goodness, it wasn't good -the crying and those thoughts were the answer right there. She would have been fine, and I thought before we started the one place would be for sure where we would take her. I definitely thought a more official daycare facility was going to be my preference, and it turns out....it wasn't! To each their own.

The in between place was ok, she would have been fine there, it was closest to home.

The first at home place was ok too, but it just didn't seem "it". The second at home place and our third overall visit......was totally it. It's closest to my work, and DH was all over me hoping I was ok with her going there as it was far and beyond his favourite too. We probably caught her at her worst too, with March Break, she was at her max and still doing really well, come the Fall she will have her youngest LO (other two school age) and three full-timers, including our LO

I'm glad it's over, any child care searching horror stories? I can't say I'm in a rush to ever do that again!