headaches, physical and metaphorical
Jun. 29th, 2005 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaThe physical is brought on by 1) the fact that Casper was up at 12:30 and intermittently from 1:30-3:30 last night, then again at 5, 2) the exertion of my day which has involved lunch at home to discuss the nanny fall schedule and then a women's colloquium discussing the "momoir" genre and its fleeting moment, and how it relates to feminist concerns as a whole, and 3) the metaphorical headache.
Baby Milo is pulling out of the summer nanny share because after 7 weeks he and the nanny still haven't got any equilibrium and it's making both of them miserable, and Eli moved away last week, so now the schedule will be Hadas and Casper every morning, and Casper alone every afternoon. Options for dealing include: asking the nanny to accept $10 an hour for the afternoons, rather than her usual $15; tapping our prospective fall addition (who we hope will replace Eli) for a couple of afternoons a week; cutting back the nanny's hours and taking care of Casper ourselves a couple of afternoons a week; some combination of the above. Any way you slice it it's more expense and hassle for us.
In today's lunchtime meeting we got S. to agree to try putting the girls down for their naps early starting in August, so as to have them up before the pickup of Alexander at school at 2:30, which is the major stumbling block for making the schedule work. Casper cannot make it until 3 without a nap, which was S.'s proposed solution, and if she did, she wouldn't be up by 4:30, which is when I pick her up. So this is good, but I'm still wary and weary and wishing we could hire the nanny for ours alone. Ah, daycare.
Baby Milo is pulling out of the summer nanny share because after 7 weeks he and the nanny still haven't got any equilibrium and it's making both of them miserable, and Eli moved away last week, so now the schedule will be Hadas and Casper every morning, and Casper alone every afternoon. Options for dealing include: asking the nanny to accept $10 an hour for the afternoons, rather than her usual $15; tapping our prospective fall addition (who we hope will replace Eli) for a couple of afternoons a week; cutting back the nanny's hours and taking care of Casper ourselves a couple of afternoons a week; some combination of the above. Any way you slice it it's more expense and hassle for us.
In today's lunchtime meeting we got S. to agree to try putting the girls down for their naps early starting in August, so as to have them up before the pickup of Alexander at school at 2:30, which is the major stumbling block for making the schedule work. Casper cannot make it until 3 without a nap, which was S.'s proposed solution, and if she did, she wouldn't be up by 4:30, which is when I pick her up. So this is good, but I'm still wary and weary and wishing we could hire the nanny for ours alone. Ah, daycare.