This Is Me Maria

I am still so upset I can barely type this. I should preface this post by stating that this is my fault, I should have checked out the childcare facility in advance and gotten more details. I should not assume that every childcare is as wonderful as our school year one.

As I mentioned before I don’t like summer too much. My children have to go to a different childcare during the summer. Last year we had an incident at the summer childcare through the school district - combined with other things that did and did not happen, we looked for a different solution for this summer. I was extremely unhappy with the things that occurred last summer.

This past Monday the kids attended their first day at the new childcare.

I was so upset at the situation that I cried when I left. They are in the basement of a facility that apparently does not have AC. They spend the majority of the day in this large room with few toys with kids that are much older than their age range. Today they didn’t even split up into the younger kid rooms and were just forced outside. The room doesn’t feel clean, the toys are clearly not sanitized. There are broken toys in broken unsanitized bins.

It is just kind of a place to stash the children when they aren’t taking their turn to go on a field trip to places like a dirty public beach to play in the freezing Puget Sound with a total of 60 kids in tow.

The first day that my husband picked them up, the door between the childcare and the pool was wide open as were every other door in the facility. The person inside didn’t know where our children were. My husband had to wander from room to room and then outside to locate them.

There are a few other “minor” things that all add up to one big failure. Tomorrow I am bringing them with me to the office for a little bit and then taking the rest of the day off to interview nannies. I pray that we find one right away. Please pray for us. I cannot and will not continue to send them to this childcare facility.

Tomorrow I have to call the grandparents and ask someone to watch them for Thursday and Friday. I can’t drop off my daughter there even one more morning. This morning when I dropped them off I was equally disgusted and upset with the facility, the staff, the situation, everything.