When DH & I have our first baby, we will live in the city neighboring the town where I grew up. I have given more and more thought to being a working mom vs SAHM and I think I am leaning more and more towards working.

If I work, we would probably send LO to a daycare center in our city. The company I would love to work for eventually actually has a very highly regarded daycare center for employees. Obviously that would be very convenient!

However, I recently remembered a friend of my mom's who is retired who had said to me emphatically that she would be our nanny one day. At the time, I thought I would more likely be a SAHM, so I didn't think a lot about it. I know she would be a wonderful nanny. She's a total grandma type. Even if she wasn't able, I think it's likely that one of our family friends in my hometown would be happy to be our nanny for less pay than a typical nanny would require. Until LO is 18 mo. or so, I think this would be a better option and I have gotten excited thinking about it.

The only thing of course is that they would have to drive 45 minutes to our house, or we would have to take LO equally as far to their home, or we'd have to somehow meet them halfway, each of us driving 20+ minutes twice a day.

I know this is WAY in advance but I love planning for fun! I'm interested to see... would you try to make a great nanny situation work even if you were 45 minutes away? Or would you think that's too inconvenient and choose a great daycare?