Holidays already! Seems to me like Christmas is barely passed and suddenly there is another holiday again. Mind you, being that it is her first year at school I think she really needs it - she was getting fairly exhausted by the end of that half term and is catching up on some sleep so far this week.
In terms of my week, well it has been pretty difficult to fit much work in. As a (predominantly) work at home mum, I find I still need to ensure the little one is looked after by someone else, even if in the same building. I cannot profess to get as much done unless I can say "I'm off to work, see you in a few hours" and literally disappear for that time (even if it is just upstairs).
The main thing this week has not so much been trying to find childcare, as I have a couple of extremely brilliant Grandma's often available and a partner who is currently on lates, so can do the afternoon shift. It was more that I want her to remain entertained - Nick Jr and her colouring pens only work for so long before she wants the company of other kids.
Unfortunately, her cousins half term is a completely different week to ours. However, luckily one of them is at nursery only 3 days a week, and the other has an inset day on Friday, so I took the decision to take a trip down to my home town in the south London suburbs so that they can all hang out.
So, I have had a couple of afternoons and evenings fitting a few hours in, and the rest of the week is for relaxing. Well, less relaxing and more trying to cram in lots of old friends and their kids whilst in the area. Still it should be fun. And at least I have the luxury of being able to enjoy that kind of flexibility (and she has the time with her cousins whom she adores).
I can only contemplate 6 weeks in Summer with a kind of tremble though! I think she is going to have to accept some boredom - good old fashioned boredom, got to be good for the character. I will need to work for a good chunk of it so there'll be nothing else for it.
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Hi, have you thought of asking your local nursery if they will have her, most opperate a age range to 5 years old, then she gets the company of other kids and is looked after safely giving you that piece of mind as well. the other benifit is you can claim some of the cost from family tax so you don't feel that much out of pocket, altenativly loads of schools run a play scheme for some weeks in the summer holidays so they are with their friends and supervised by usually a teacher they know . The other thing you might want to think about is to ask other mums if they'd like to join a co-operative where all the kids spend a day at anothers house giving you time and the other mums so noone feels like they are doing it all plus the chat at the end of the day is invaluable in the human contact stakes. Hope some of that helps and at the end of the day we all got bored as kids not that we will admit it
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