buying the kid a social life

Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you the chance to spend three days a week with eight of your peers in a nice room with toys and books and adult supervision. If you're two. I never did figure out which of the two preschools we applied to I preferred, but Juniper got into one of them and it turned out we'd have had to apply to the other one last fall to have a shot (why they couldn't tell me that when I toured and applied in January is unclear) so there we are, we have a winner.

I am pretty much an abysmal failure at forming any sort of ongoing relationships with the parents of the kids she encounters at the playground or gym class or that sort of thing, so it's a big relief to know that in six months she'll have some long-term social associations.