My daughter just started daycare. She’s almost 18 months old. Up until now she’s been at home with a nanny while I work. Since I telecommute we felt that, as a baby, she ought to be home with me. Especially for the first year when I was nursing. We felt as she got a bit older and more capable of interacting with other children (and learning from them) it was time to get her into a daycare program. She’s joining the same daycare/pre-school facility my 4-year-old son is in. He started there when he was 18 months too - after being at home with a nanny.

So this will be a change for me. I was used to having a couple extra people in the house. When I took breaks I could get a few minutes with my baby girl and chat a bit with the nanny to see how she was doing. Now I will have to adjust to working in a completely empty house again (I went through the same adjustment when my son started at daycare). I know it will be fine, but it is a bit lonelier working all alone in an empty house. On the plus side, I won’t have to worry about the distraction of playing with the baby or chatting with the nanny (sometimes I’d do this a little longer than I’d intended). And maybe it will force me to get out of the house a little more - to seek out some company. I’ve got some good suggestions for how to do that in my upcoming book, and will probably blog on these ideas as I do them - so stay tuned!

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