outside the (toy) box

Well, we had the big meeting yesterday and it went fairly well.  Because the teachers in the preschool have Master’s degrees in child development or education and the director has an EDD, I made the mistake of going in ready to talk about solutions/alternatives, but presumed I didn’t really need to “teach” why this is a problem. In fact, I specifically avoided professor mode, since I only study media – they are the experts on Read the complete Post.

 This post isn’t on-theme. Just so you know in advance.

Thing 2 turns one this week.  I turn none-of your-god-damned-business (36) 5 days later.  A year gone.  It’s been hard.  I hate his current family day care, and although I had the awkward fumbling overdue relief of firing her last week, he deserved better. 

So did I.  I went back to work when he was 9 weeks old.  9 weeks. If I had

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