Holy Cow...Daycare!

Jan 26th...

Derrick had a pre-deployment briefing today and all the soldiers were encouraged to bring their wives along to hear the information, I was excited to go because I wanted to meet some other wives and get my foot in the FRG door, and plus, they have an onsite daycare center. I was so excited for cael to finally get to interact with other kids, I couldn't wait. As we were dropping the kids off I wasn't too worried about Averi, military installations are held to a higher standard when it comes to things like daycare and I felt very good about the employees there, but I did start to worry about what to do if Cael didn't want to stay, do I just hug and him and walk away? Do I stay with him hoping he will become more at ease and I can sneak out later? Do I bag the idea all together? I had absolutely nothing to worry about, I am actually the one who was bummed out when I dropped him off. He didn't even want to come back and give me a hug. He was so excited! There was another little boy a little older than him, 2 little girls (one of them screaming bloody murder, poor thing. She was still crying when we came back to pick him up) and Averi. The 3 women working there almost fought over Averi and she was out of her car seat before it even hit the ground. It felt so good to watch Cael have fun today that I feel a lot better about going to school!