Child care

As the start of school gets closer and closer, I'm getting more and more worried about how Ronan and I will adjust to the new routine. I finally found a day care that I like, and even though it's out of the way, I'm really happy with it. I'm not all that worried about how he'll do with that. I'm more worried about how things are going to go with my two night classes. On the nights that Tom's not working, it should be ok, although still probably not great, since Ronan continues to refuse to take a bottle and doesn't seem to get how the sippy cup works. Even more nerve wracking though for me is having to leave Ronan with others when Tom is working. I'm grateful that we have family nearby who are willing and able to help. However, I'm just nervous about how it will work out, especially the first couple of weeks. It would make me feel a lot better if we could get this drinking thing figured out, since that's still how he goes to sleep. I know that he won't starve - he'll eat baby food without a problem and obviously, if he gets hungry enough, he should take a bottle. Plus, the longest I would be gone in the evening is about 5 hours. Still, I just hate the thought that he might be sitting here crying for me and I won't be there.

I know it'll get better once we adjust and parents do this all the time. He'll still be surrounded by people who love him and will take care of him. And yet....

In other news, I learned today that Ronan is not a fan of bagpipes. We learned that in church, where our organist had taken the day off and so one of our members played the pipes as the sole accompaniment for each hymn. The very first note, I looked over at Ronan to see how he would react and he was fine. But then as it got louder, his face began to crumple and pretty soon he was making his displeasure known to all. The people around me all laughed, so that was good. He did better with each song, but still - definitely not his thing.