Jobs and day care

I shouldn't jinx myself.... but I will. I had a job interview this week. It went pretty well I think. It was for a part time (17.5 hours per week) research job at the University of Edinburgh working on a ground source heat pump project in the political science department. It would be a non sciency type job, which actually suits me just fine. But, I'm not getting my hopes up, as they had a few jobs advertised, and they told me they had several people applying to several of the jobs - meaning they might hire one person to work on two part time jobs. So, apparently I'll hear something after Easter. I also have some other interesting part time job leads, so I'm quite content to just wait things out and see what else pops up.
The most nerve racking thing about going back to work, or thinking about going back to work, has been figuring out Marius's day care situation. So, we're moving from the south side of town to the north side of town in May/June but if I start working sooner than that, then I'll need to do a lot of commuting before we move as I want a day care near the new flat. That's a pain, but it's just logistical and I can deal with that. The hard part is that the day cares that I like, are full or at least partially full at the moment.... Meaning I either need to hold off on looking for a job, or I have to put Marius somewhere less than ideal (not an option!) until August when spaces will open up, or Simon will need to take some serious time off during the week days to help out and then work more on the weekends. I think the later will be what we'll do and hopefully squeeze one day a week of day care at the place we like (but that's all the time they have until August) that's across town from us at the moment. Then, after we move, we'll be much closer to the day care and then by August we can have Marius there 2 full days a week and Simon will just take one half day a week to look after the boy. I am super happy about that, as it actually means Marius gets more "daddy time" than he is getting now. But, I need to get a job first don't I? There are lots of unknowns and what ifs at the moment!

We had a lovely weekend. Yesterday we went up to County Fife just north of Edinburgh and across the Firth of Forth. It was a nice sunny, albeit cold, day. We made the most of it by going to a nice park/garden in Dunfermline. We've been there before and knew they had a green house, so regardless of the weather we'd be OK. Marius got to stretch his legs a bit in the greenhouse and was loving touching all of the plants. I think we could have a budding botanist on our hands. His grandfather would be so proud, as Simon's dad was a botanist/biochemist. After the gardens we decided to go to Aberdour Castle. It was really beautiful there, and the views of Edinburgh were amazing! You could totally make out the castle and Arthur's Seat on the skyline.