I love the person and the care she provides my daughter, the problem is that she's taken 3 days off just this month alone.

I'll grant you my schedule is pretty flexible with the telecommuting I can do, but with the possibility looming that we might be leaving the state in 3 months, I've been spending a lot of time in the office getting stuff done.

The web server keeps puking because we've added some more stuff to it and that stuff is still in the "test it out" stage. Today, I was a little miffed because the guy who is in charge of the other stuff actually tried to bomb the server, and dammit, if he didn't succeed.

It's a program web page off a larger departmental page, so we don't get piles of traffic, so it's not a server that is hard to crash. It's functional for most of our purposes. Now, I'm not so sure for that particular brand of purposes.

This kind of stuff requires that I be there. Having a daycare person who meets you at the door and lets you know that gee, you need to be there at 4 because she has an appointment she's known about since the previous day, is a pisser.

Big gigantic pisser.

The birthday party on a Friday, rather than a weekend was a pisser. The two days for the flu were understandable, sort of, though I still think anyone with asthmatic kids and a daycare should get a freakin' flu shot.

And how many other days have there been here and there? Several.

Oh, and now the rage for state pages is making them ADA compatible. I'll grant you that I haven't stayed as on top of that as I should have, but our pages are basically accessible. But add the fact that I love my job and I feel very professionally obligated to leave the page in good shape should I have to flee the state mid-June to accompany my husband to some new job in some new location, and I'm at work a lot lately.

Now, the most important news of the day is that Genny is walking a lot lately. It used to be one tentative step from one safe place to the next, but in the past few days she's suddenly taking several steps at a time, controlling her plops to the ground and then standing without holding onto anything and taking a couple more steps.

Soon, she'll be running. She won't come running, when Mommy lifts her shirt and says,"Hey, Genny, want some Na-na's?" She won't be easily distracted with a song. She will have figured out doorknobs and be able to get into the catbox just fine thanks.

I love watching her grow, but almost wish she wouldn't grow so darned fast.

Back to the topic...
The most frustrating thing my daycare person did recently, is that when I came to get Genny today, she told me Genny took 7 steps without any help, which made me want to find something large and blunt and hit the daycare person's shins. I don't want to know all the cool wonderful things that baby's done without me.

Tip of the day: If you do daycare, never tell parents of children under the age of 1 all the cool stuff their kids did while they were at work.