Communing with the Kommune

I finally decided to do it – whatever the outcome might be. Outcome 1 – Peter gets to go to the bornhave near our place. Outcome 2 – Peter stays home with me every day, forever. I prefer #1, but neither one of us is happy with the current bornhave…So off we went yesterday to the Kommune.

A few weeks ago I had a friend of ours call the Kommune and speak with the people that arrange placements in the bornhave. She called to see if we could get on a waiting list for the bornhave next to our house, while still attending our current one. Answer = No. Reason = We are already placed within our school district, so we have to stay there, getting on a waiting list for a different location was just not an option.

So then I shared my revised scheme with the above friend. The plan was this – drop out of bornhave all together, and then get on the waiting list for the one by our house. I was willing to wait out the summer because - 1) this month they are on strike, 2) they have next month off, and 3) August we will have visitors and hopefully do some visiting of our own.

Well, after telling the girl behind the Kommune counter that I wanted to change, she looked Pete up, made a note (somewhat promising yet unpromising at the same time), and now I think I’m on a waiting list AND still enrolled in the current kindergarten. I think. I guess we’ll see.

While downtown yesterday we stopped at the library. I picked up a short junior fiction book - The Scream by Joan Aiken. The jacket said (from more than one reviewer) - superbly chilling, unsettling, strangely disturbing. I don't know why, but I just didn't get that from the story. Lots of potentially spooky things, but they just didn't go anywhere really.