Daycare - CHECK!

I seriously never thought it would be this easy. I have officially gotten my daycare all lined up for when I go back to work from maternity leave and it is perfect!!!! I’d always known of this lady in our subdivision a couple of blocks away who did daycare and every time I would drive by her house, I would think to myself how perfect it would be if I ever got pregnant if I could take my baby there. One day when I was driving by, I happened to notice a co-worker of mine picking his kids up there and later asked who she was. Of course, since Dubuque is such a small world, it turns out that I happen to know her son-in-law. So, the Facebook junkie that I am sent him a quick note asking for her contact information and if he knew whether she might have an opening coming up at the end of August/early September. He talked to her for me, gave me her contact information and said that she would in fact have an opening! I guess my timing is pretty good for daycare openings considering kids are going back to school at that time of year. Anyways, I talked to her on the phone and then Dave and I met with her last week. She has been doing daycare for over 20 years, her accommodations are very nice, and she just seemed like a really sweet, caring person. I checked her references, of which she received glowing reviews, and called her last night to hold our place. Her prices are very reasonable, our baby will be the only infant with the next closest in age being a 2 year old, she lives so close to home, and her husband works at John Deere which means when she takes vacation in the summer, it will coincide with the same two weeks that I am off for summer shutdown. I just feel like it is meant to be! I was sort of dreading even beginning the daycare search so I can’t believe how this all fell into place so quickly. I feel so fortunate!! Next up on the TO DO list is to start getting the baby’s room cleaned out and to start working on my baby registry! At first it felt like we had so much time to get stuff ready but it has been going by so quickly…as of yesterday, I am 15 weeks pregnant. I can’t believe that in 5 more weeks I will be halfway through my pregnancy!