Mdo?

[cdmommie]

Does (or has) anyone do Mother's Day Out at your church or anything?
I am working on my second degree. With the first degree I managed to do mostly everything online and never left the kids, except with DH maybe an hour per month. Now, I am working on a Nursing Degree and need to do one class on campus during the day. I can leave them with another like-minded mama for 2 hours, 2 days a week, but I don't know her all that well. Or, I can have them go to MDO at church those two days. The MDO program runs 9-2, but I would probably pick them up around 11:30 or noon.

WWYD?? Any experience with this type of thing? I am just really freaked out about leaving them at all, much less HOURS at a time.... Probably sounds silly, but it's the truth

[sparklett]

I haven't done anything like that, but I am counting down the days 'till preschool so I can have a couple of hours to myself. On the first week of preschool, DH is going to take a morning off work and we're going to see a movie! I'm so excited.

If these are people you trust, then why not? It doesn't sound all that different than preschool or daycare. If it helps, ask if you can observe ahead of time to see how the program works.

[allaiter]

I will be using a PDO when I start back to school this year. I will do it from home but I will need time to my self to do the work and DD19mos will not nap most days let alone give me an hour with out beig climbed on.

We did pre-school with my 3rd and she really liked it as did we. #4 is on the list but it is 2 years away.

[flatstanley72]

I haven't done it yet, but DD (almost 4) will start preschool 2 afternoons a week in September and we have a sitter who comes 2 mornings a week (3 hours at a time) to take care of both kids (DS is 15 months) while I work nearby--usually at a coffee shop that is about 5 min away. The sitter has been coming all summer and for most of it, DH was home doing things around the house while she was there, to help DS get used to her. Now he is comfortable, so I feel comfortable leaving both of them with her. We have also been leaving them in the church nursery on Sunday mornings for the past couple of weeks and they are doing well with that. DS is on the list for MDO at our church, but probably won't get in this year.

With DD, I never left her except with DH for the longest time. And that was okay when it was just her, but with two high-needs kids who don't sleep much and are not both asleep at the same time until about 10 pm, I was getting very burned out and really needed some help, so it has been good to have a little more childcare. I finally realized it wasn't good for them to be with me all the time if it meant I was totally stressed out and had no patience, which is what was happening since I had zero time for myself.

[Amys1st]

I have been doing a PDO since dd2 was 18 mos old. It runs from 9-130pm. They give them a lunch you bring. I even kept it going after she started preschool since its at the same place because she loves it! I was going to stop it this year since its her last year home, but she loves her "lunch day".

Its a nice long break to go to Drs appts, have a lunch date, go run errands alone, make phone calls that require being on hold etc.

[cdmommie]

Thanks everyone! I was actually able to change my class schedule around so that I can only take evening classes and they can stay with Daddy those three days. I'm so so happy!