– 12:51 pm
Right. Nurseries. We’re late on this. We’d sought a steer from Marc and Jess who’d recommended the Child’s Play Nursery (where Luca and Noah went to). It has great ratings and ranks highly among parents. So your mother had it earmarked and got you registered from a year ago I believe.
She had me call them last month – she believes I’m better at these things for some reason – to find out if we’d make the cut. Turns out we’re thirty-something on the list and unlikely to get a place this year and maybe next year. I mean, I hear people register their kids the second they find out they are pregnant. Now we know why. It’s that difficult to get admission (into a decent nursery, of which there aren’t many).
When we visited Marc last weekend, Jess was recounting having to call the nursery every day and pestering them until she got admission. That was her advice. That and changing our needs to requiring full time care (as opposed to three days a week). Those apparently get prioritised. Thinking about it, it’s more money, less joggling and less admin for them. The logic is sound. So we’re thinking about it. Liza just walked in so I’m going to ask her what action we should take… She agrees we should pursue both.
By “both” she means the Child’s Play Nursery and Parson’s House Nursery. She’d managed to get membership into the latter and it seems a fine, if not better option. We’re getting a tour on Thursday. It’s just… A bit far so logistically not the best by comparison. But that’s plan B.
We’re currently in Riga and I’m writing from an AirBnb. Your mother is on the phone talking to her mum. We’re going out when she’s done so I need to pause this update for some basic hygiene. I’ll resume later this evening.
PS – We heard you slept well last night. Much much love to you.