My son will be three next year, and will no longer be able to be at his current daycare.

Yesterday, I started the hunt for preschools. Why now? Because there are waiting lists and applications and this PROCESS unlike no other.

Do you want a preschool that is structured? Do you want a preschool that isn't? All of these REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS for a mom or dad to have. But then, I am finding out ... what I want really doesn't matter. It's about all this other SHIT.

One director told me we could still be high up on the waiting list, but if they needed more girls than boys, mine would be cut.

Another told me it was really unlikely we'd get in - that the waiting list is so long - but we could 'try'.

The last said they'd have their accepted list ready by March, unlike the other schools that wait a bit longer. This is fine, but what if by the summer, your top pick opens up and you get in? WHAT THEN!?

AAAAAAH!

(insert sound of me banging my head on the desk)

So, I signed up for three tours. I am filling out applications. I am going crazy.

I told my husband about all of this, and he said, "So, it's like Rush Week for Toddlers, then?".

Yes, I think so.