I am sure will all be fine but was more that I hadn't really realized how long I will be paying for her to attend childcare! In my head once she hit 2 in May was only a couple more years still school started which would be five days a week 9-15:30(as it would be in the UK,(my mum thinks we should go back to UK for a year and then she can get at least a year of school in over there before coming back to school over here!! - she is assuming CJ will be like me and absolutely desperate to go to school, but maybe she will be more like DH)). Is partly because I want her to go to the school down the road which has a catchment area which we are in, but we are in a two bed, first floor flat with no garden and is highly unlikely we will be able to move within this area so I had figured we stay here till she starts school, and once she is in can move to the suburb along and she can still go to school there (the catchment area is pretty small would still be able to walk to school) and as she is already there Number 2 would get in there too. Hence the plan then to go round Europe for 8 months because we then escape the tiny flat for a while but is a good incentive to stay in it till then (will rent very easily while away).

I really had not appreciated how complicated it is working and sorting school in the beginning - I had never been to daycare or kinder or anything and went straight into full days at school everyone did - but it seems even when school starts it is a gradual start even though CJ might have been going to full days of daycare for ages. I will have number 2 about so might not be back full time when CJ starts school which will make it easier. I suppose this is where family support often helps with having someone else about who can help with pick up and drop offs etc.