It has been raining SO much here that the entire yard and neighborhood is covered in spider webs. groooooooooooooooooooss. I regularly walk into about 5 webs a day and it's making me so paranoid that I have spiders crawling on me.

I'm heading to Gainsville for two nights to hang with Patrick. He's there for this entire month (ugh) for work and has been commuting home each night. The drive is an hour and 15 minutes and has been getting old for him, so Pipsqueak and I are gonna go spend a few nights with him so he doens't have to make that drive home. I'm not looking forward to having to lounge in the hotel room (no computer!) while Piper sleeps in the afternoon, but maybe I'll read, watch tv, talk on the phone. I was thinking I would bring a yoga DVD but there's no DVD player.

Patrick's dad/step mom come in town Friday morning through Sunday night. Then Monday morning Crissy and I are planning to drive down to New Smyrna Beach to see Clair and her family and then Tuesday I leave for Ann Arbor to visit the Bell's!! Fun!

I toured the DLC Nurse and Learn Daycare yesterday. I'm at the end of my rope for finding a place to put her part-time. Finding a place to put a 5 month-old is tough and then on top of that we need to be able to put her in part-time and to afford it. A friend of mine recommend DLC and has her 6 month-old in it and loves it. It's a daycare for developmentally disabled children, but they also take "typical" children as well. It's right in Murray Hill, Patrick could drop off Piper on the way to work, it's $250/month part-time (9am - 3pm M-F) and I got a really sweet, comfortable, loving vibe from it. Now the downfall - it is a dump. The bushes are overgrown, the sign that says DLC is flaking off and looks like crap, the parking lot has a chain link fence around it and it is pretty dumpy looking. I like to think it's like the birthing center - I went from Dr.Winslow's super swanky office to the birth center's dumpy, frumpy office - as far as looks it was nothing to write home about, but it was a wonderful place for us. If it works out to put Piper there (they are checking to see if they have room in the infant room starting in Sept), I'll probably only have her there until she's 1 and then I'll move her to a Mother's Morning Out. And hopefully Crissy and I can have Avery and Piper in the same MMO so we can share pick-up/drop-off duties.

And yes, I did cry when I left the DLC tour. Just a few tears. I don't wanna leave my little googie.