H. rocking out to a band during Art Hop ’09:

Tomorrow, our little H. starts his first full week of daycare.

I have no illusions that this is going to be easy.  H. has spent most of his time with his Mama for more than a year now.  This has been good for him.  And I believe that it has been good for Amy and for me as well.

It’s sad that this time is going to end.  But we never believed and so never planned for it to last forever.  That said, it stuns me how many radical shifts we will go through (have already gone through) to get this into place.

It will be good for Amy (that’s Dr. Chess to you) to get back to work.  And I also think that it will be good for Holden to be around more kids his age (though he’s too old for the infant room and still maybe not developmentally advanced enough for the toddler room but let’s not digress too much) — to socialize and to learn and to play.

We’ve got a decent plan for the full five days of coverage.  It’s still not ideal (note that I didn’t say “perfect”) but it will do.  We are comfortable with these choices and I think that’s what matters the most.

All that being said, it will be weird to think of Holden being away from his Mama all day.  But at least we’ve fallen into a lot of good rhythms as a family, especially when it comes to bumping around Vermont to do fun things like berry picking and hiking and swimming in the lake…

So here’s to more of those capitalized Weekends.