UGH
Why does everything have to be so difficult sometimes? UGH. So, back when I first received the offer for this job at GW, we started looking into preschool options for Drew post haste. We got on the wait list at the Bright Horizons center associated with GW, it's just two blocks from my office and the plan was for Drew and me to ride the Metro in each morning and I would drop him off, and then we'd ride back in the evening.
When we applied, based on Drew's age and the classroom he would be going into, they estimated that he would have a spot sometime in July. Cool.
About two weeks ago, they e-mailed to say that it was likely that he would have a spot in late-August to early-September. Uh oh. Not cool. So we scrambled a bit and have arranged for Ellison to come stay with us to watch him for pretty much all of September.
I went over to the center today to get a look at the place and to check on our status on the wait list. I shouldn't have done that. The place is fine, it's an NAEYC accredited center, which is really good and it's required to meet all sorts of standards for that. But when I asked about the wait list, we've gone from third to eighth, with an estimated available spot in OCTOBER or early NOVEMBER. OCTFUCKINGTOBER is NOT SOON ENOUGH.
I also feel really, well, betrayed. Because if they had told me in April that we wouldn't have a spot until October, we would have looked for other options starting in April! We've lost three months on somebody else's wait list because they told us that we'd have a spot in July, which is when we wanted it. UGH.
*headdesk*
When we applied, based on Drew's age and the classroom he would be going into, they estimated that he would have a spot sometime in July. Cool.
About two weeks ago, they e-mailed to say that it was likely that he would have a spot in late-August to early-September. Uh oh. Not cool. So we scrambled a bit and have arranged for Ellison to come stay with us to watch him for pretty much all of September.
I went over to the center today to get a look at the place and to check on our status on the wait list. I shouldn't have done that. The place is fine, it's an NAEYC accredited center, which is really good and it's required to meet all sorts of standards for that. But when I asked about the wait list, we've gone from third to eighth, with an estimated available spot in OCTOBER or early NOVEMBER. OCTFUCKINGTOBER is NOT SOON ENOUGH.
I also feel really, well, betrayed. Because if they had told me in April that we wouldn't have a spot until October, we would have looked for other options starting in April! We've lost three months on somebody else's wait list because they told us that we'd have a spot in July, which is when we wanted it. UGH.
*headdesk*