Sunday, August 17, 2008

Not the Friday I had hoped for.

Where to start? I know that I have been irritable and am not always making sense of what I am trying to say with being pregnant and my moods are all over the place lately (pregnancy or thyroid or both teaming up together - take your pick). Friday morning I dropped Katelynn off at daycare and had voiced to my daycare provider that if her husband was going to watch Katelynn that I needed to know before hand or a phone call and had stated it was a safety issue for me to know who was watching my kiddo and when. (Now keep in mind this is what I know that I said, how I said it or how it come out, who knows lately). So, we talked about it and it was fine (or so I thought) and I drove to work. About a mile from my work my cell phone starts ringing and it's my daycare provider's husband - he starts screaming at me on the phone on why I think that my child is not safe with him and this and that and the other thing and that his wife is at home crying - I tried to explain myself, but he was completely out of control on the phone, I told him I never said that Katelynn wasn't safe with him and so on. He then proceeded to tell me to pull the stick out of my butt and turn around and pick up my kid and raise my own damn child. At that point I'd had enough and was upset and turned around and went back to the daycare. The daycare provider and me talked and came to conclusion that it was a huge misunderstanding on her part and miscommunication for both us and Katelynn wanted to stay there for the day, so I let her stay there. I did explain how her husband reacted and what was said to me and that I had some thinking to do. I picked up Katelynn at 4:30pm that day and asked for all of her things and that we would not be returning. I told the daycare provider that her husband had handled the situation inappropriately and that if it would have been dealt with between me and her things would have turned out differently. This was a very hard day, they have watched Katelynn since she was 10 weeks old and I cannot believe that it came to this, but I know that I cannot bring her back there after the way he reacted to one misunderstanding, the way treated me on the phone, and that he might resent Katelynn after all of this. The daycare provider was visibly upset when we left on Friday and said she will be closing down her daycare after this, I feel horrible now for the other parents, but I feel that I can't be blamed for that piece of it. There are a couple of other issues that had red flags for me as well and guided me in my decision to not let her return, but the most was him and his temper. Dan is of course mad as hell at him know for yelling at me and making me upset and the entire ordeal and I hope they don't run into each other anytime soon. So, we are on the hunt for new daycare - what a drag. Next week I have covered - our babysitter is going to watch her on Monday and Tuesday and then Wed. thru Friday she is going to the back-up daycare providers (which of course is across the street from the old daycare - oh joy, that outta be comfortable!) Dan has a friend who's wife is quitting her job to stay at home and just got licensed for daycare and will be providing preschool as well and they have one opening at this time and are in our town. We have known them since a little before Katelynn was born and they are nice people so I will be calling them to set up an appt. Wish us luck! My only hope is that this isn't too damaging on Katelynn because I know that she is going to miss Linda a lot.

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