Preschool mania

I’d like to say we are “settled” in our new home but my sewing table is still not organized to be in production yet. The goal of the week. I am itching to get back to my trusty Viking. After many hours of putting together Ikea furniture and buying stuff to outfit the new house my time has currently been eaten up with researching preschools. I can not even believe how much time I have spent researching; calling, searching the web, looking through directories, touring etc. It’s preschool for goodness sakes! And I am shocked that people will actually spend 20 thou a year on preschool! That is just crazy to me! Oh the things I could do with that money. The boys and me are headed to hopefully the last preschool we will look at…I am praying this will be the “one”. It meets all of my requirements: 3 days a week in the afternoon, close to my house so I can drive home and actually get work done and it’s affordable. I’ll be bringing a check with me to lock in Logan’s spot for the fall. Yes all this work has been for fall entry. There were actually a few preschools that I looked into that had a year waiting list. You have got to be kidding?!?! I called one place was told about the waiting list and then the woman asked me if I wanted to register my younger child. I informed her that he isn’t even 2 yet. And she told me that if I want him to attend in the fall of 2008 that I should register him now!!! Does anyone else see how insane this is? I was expecting to go through this for college maybe high school if they chose to go private for whatever reason but preschool!!! All they do is sing songs and play and learn colors, shapes etc. Some kids don’t even go to preschool before entering kindergarten. Why has society forced us to believe that we need to do all of this?