Decisions

As we approach the end of my second week back to work, a lot has changed. Jude is no longer in day care and will instead have an in-home nanny during the day (courtesy of the Bowman family) while I’m at work. This option is only a temporary patch as Katie will be going back to school at the end of the summer and will no longer be able to watch Jude.

After a pretty poor experience with our previous day care (I won’t get into the details right now) I have no interest in putting Jude into day care. Nothing against people who do chose day care, I just didn’t get a good one the first time around and being that he’s only 2 months old, I can’t imagine putting him through 3 or 4 others until I find the right one.

This leaves us with a number of options and only about a month and a half to come to a conclusion.

Option One: I stay at work, we do a lot of research, a lot of interviewing and spend a lot of money every month to have Jude in the day care of our choice.

Option Two: I work from home for the company I work for. I’ve already raised the question to them about whether it’s even an option. I’m still waiting to hear back on their decision. From what I’ve gathered though, it probably won’t happen.

Option Three: I get a part time job for the evenings and stay at home with Jude. This option is only unattractive because it would mean very minimal time with Ryan as we would probably end up working totally opposite hours. It would however probably make us appreciate our time together much more.

Option Four: I don’t work at all. We are poor and probably lose our house. (kidding about the losing out house – but it would make for a tight financial situation.
We know which option we’re leaning towards most, but no final decisions have been made. I’m hoping that no later than the end of this month we’re working towards one option or the other though.