Before The Boy was born, his father began researching preschools in our area.  This was simply because his father is obsessive compulsive about going to school.  I don't really think he has high expectations for his child as long as he promises to get at least 9 years of post graduate education.  I don't think The Boy even has to do well.  He just has to go. 

As a matter of luck, there were three in our very neighborhood.  Two of which had very, very good reputations.  Whatever the hell that means.  Does that mean when you drive by that you don't see the kids lined up on the side of the school, smoking cigs?  That they aren't learning swear words after story time?  Either way, the schools don't take kids until they are 2 1/2 years.

About 4 months ago, I started to panic in realization that I could have two kids in my house at the exact same time and searched frantically online for a mother's day out.  I found only one.  One that only took 10 kids, had four priority categories and was a co-op at that.  I emailed to check on availability and I could almost hear the woman's laughter as she got the email.  She responded that she would put us on a list.  And we would never hear from her again.  I mean, if I was a parent who cared about her child, I would have been on the list YEARS ago.

In the past week, my husband has been bringing up the MDO thing about every other second.  I came to realize that he is concerned that I will kill The Boy if I am just left unattended for any period of time.  I don't know why.  Maybe it's because I keep repeatedly saying, "I will kill The Boy if I am left unattended for any period of time."  You think that my Saturday of being gone for 8 hours would have renewed my love.  Yeah, no.  I should have headed straight to the Hyatt and came home on Monday night.  

So last night, at 11:45 p.m., I got smart.  I got online and extended my search area by 20 miles.  Sure I won't be able to drop The Boy off and have 2 hours to myself at home.  But I could, if the planets align themselves properly, have 2 hours and 45 minutes of silence if I so choose.  I found two that are less than 10 miles away.  The day before Labor Day I found 2 preschools.  Two days before MDO starts up again.   But a girl has to have hope.  I wrote the most frantic emails you have ever read. I got up at the crack of dawn to check my email.  Pushing refresh, refresh, refresh.  The last time I was this obsessive was when I was doing online dating.

Look how far I have come.