My Love Hate Relationship

I have a love-hate relationship with Leon's Daycare. Truly, it's not just his current daycare, it's probably all day care establishments. Leon has croup. On one hand day care allows me to work, and go to the gym. Being a stay at home mom is hard. I did it for 5.5 months. I loved spending time with Leon, but its not easy. Granted he was quite young then and very dependent on me. Now he can feed himself and entertain himself, so maybe it would be easier now? Nah! Now, he can get into trouble. Just today I had to stop him from chewing on electrical cords, pulling on lamp cords, and he seems determined to crawl to Posa (the dog) and touch (or smack) her. ps...I know we need to baby proof. We started at our place but we just moved last night (that's for another blog). Day care does provide Leon with (other than colds and viruses) experiences. He does not seem to have separation anxiety at all. He plays with other kids. He eats everything and some of that is related to the fact that they have a varied meal plan at day care. Today he had banana pancakes with cantaloupe for breakfast. Then he had cheese pizza with corn for lunch. The other meals have been taco salads, tuna fish sandwiches, turkey chili, chicken, rice, and veges. The meal options also has a negative side. I went through a lot of effort to make all (I still do but there's more on that later) of his meals with organic produce etc etc. But at daycare they only serve organic milk. In the end of the day, he is with people who care about him, it's super clean (yeah!), and it's organized. So it's not me, but for right now, it works.