money is not a cure all

after writing the post from a few days ago, you would have thought i had a firm grasp on what is really important. well, i'm here to say that while that is true, i'm still human and apt to make mistakes. hindsight is 20/20, and tomorrow is a new day, so i won't beat myself up too much.
the day was long, started off bad at the car dealership (cruddy customer service for the 2nd day in a row). it gives new meaning to how easy women are taken for a ride when dealing w/ repairmen. ugh. next time, i'll do my research beforehand, instead of letting the dealership go forward w/ an unneeded adjustment.

talk about switching preschools has come up again-for one too many reasons. the parents of the children m and g play with are leaving the center. to put it bluntly, the center had a mishap (not a life threatening one, but one that involved licensing) and the way they handled it w/ parents that they had once had really good communication with, well, it left a sour taste w/ many parents (myself included). talking w/ the director yesterday, i voiced my concerns (always my childrens best advocate), and while i kept thinking this is good practice for one day when i want to be pta mom, i still felt like there's going to be a major fallout. will it affect my kids? to some degree-but at the same time, my hands are tied.

as i've said once before, i'm looking for part time work. looking for work, i have known i'd have to place e somewhere safe, and i knew that the boys preschool would work w/ us to provide a safe setting at an affordable rate (and being 3 kids, not adding up to a mortgage payment is ideal!) the idea has come up for the boys to switch to where their friends are going-but for one reason or another (too far for us-(its closer to where other parents work vs where we all reside), the religious affiliation, or it just being a temp place for a year before the older kids enter kindergarten and everyone switchs again to another place closer to home, i'm just not sold on the idea. so right now i'm the lone one of a group of parents (who've been together since our kids days in the infant room years ago when us parents were working/in grad school) still planning on working w/ our current preschool. hubby has fully supported me, and told me if i could give him one good reason for the boys not to be where they're at, we'd take them out. yet, i can't-the reasons are all based on what others are doing, not necessarily because something isn't right for our kids. sigh...being a responsible parent is tough stuff.

to close tonight, we went to the farmer's market. spent too much money on bounce houses, lemonade, and yummy sandwiches. poor hubby was trying to win me over through my stomach, but it just made it full-didn't face the issues head on. tomorrow is a new day, so we'll work on that stuff tomorrow.