I was talking to a friend who is currently potty training a 2.5 year old, and she said something very profound along the lines of "Sometimes you take a page of a parenting manual and make it a chapter." This is very true of the potty training stage, where all of your daily conversations revolved around bodily functions. I also know mothers of infants who get sucked into cloth diapering.
My current chapter is school options. We are moving to D.C., which is so much larger than where I currently live my head occasionally spins. I have lived in other large cities, and the one I leave near now could qualify, but I either didn't have children yet or was one myself. All my other moves have just consisted of finding the cheapest rent and moving in. Now I have to think about neighborhoods. Commutes. And schools. Trying to find a home within the right public school district would be daunting enough, but my husband also is very skeptical of public school and wants to look at private. The sheer amount of schools involved in considering this, the different styles, the various driving patterns, it all gives me stress headaches.
Hopefully everything will become much clearer after we make our reconnoitering trip in a couple weeks. Until then, though, if you talk to me, I apologize in advance. It will all be about schools.
At least it's not potty training.
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Well, if you find yourself stuck, let me know. Obviously I was a college student in the DC area and therefore no nothing of school districts, but ALL of my extended family lives in Maryland and Virginia. I can ask my cousins, who all have school-aged children, what they recommend.
Carrots, I need your e-mail address :) That would be very helpful -- we think we'll wind up in Herndon or Reston, VA, maybe Ashburn.
I'll message it to you on facebook!
if that was me, and i kinda imagine it was, i said nothing quite so eloquent. could you kindly re-word all my conversations so they look that nice in print? =)
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