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April 13

Let me just start off by saying that I’m not a big believer in Horoscopes… I use Comcast for my Internet and email service. Their front page has my horoscope in front view everyday, so I take a peak. It’s unbelievable how accurate this thing has been !!!

For example, I found out just recently that my next-door neighbor is pregnant also. To top that off we are in the same week! She is due three days after me, how cool is that? Last night we spoke on the phone for a bit to compare notes and see how each other were doing. Something I really wanted to know from her was what she’d be doing for Childcare. She said that she’d be taking a year or two away from work to raise the baby.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still stand by my decision to send my baby too Mulberry for multiple reasons:

  • 1) I am a firm believer that a woman’s place is not just to raise a child. I will not agree with mothers who believe they have to smoother their child with them and only them. Giving the child no chance to explore the world
  • 2) I believe a child can benefit from a daycare in ways I could not offer. Like the early schooling, the friendships they will create, learning to socialize and share, the school trips, and the education of the childcare providers.
  • 3) I don’t think I’m cut out to stay at home everyday, I’d bore the hell out of a child.
  • 4) On the heals of point three, there’s not much to stimulate a child’s curiosity in a house all day. Daycare will offer stimulation and fun for a child.
  • 5) I can offer a child so much more with the extra income. Plus Tony works a government job. Although we are comfortable we’ll never be really OK with one salary.
  • 6) I get out of work at 2pm, so I can spend the early afternoon with the baby. I can go on and on BUT, when Kara mentioned that she’d be raising a child from home. My gut feeling was jealousy. I mean not matter what my reasons, what mother wants to hand their baby over to another person and at Six weeks old that’s just wrong and it will break my heart, maybe six months I could handle, but six weeks?

    That night I gave it some thought, I came to the conclusion that I would REALY prefer that the baby have the daycare experience. The friends, the games, the trips, the projects… Plus we really have no choice if we want to afford a life for the baby. I just wish I didn’t have to send the baby off SOOOO young.

    When I went on Comcast this morning this is what I read as my horoscope.

    Scorpio:
    This risk you're considering? Consider it again. It may not pay off in the long run.

    How accurate is that…?

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