Sing, sing a song

Nate loves music. This comes as no surprise since 1 - most babies and kids love music (it's really innate), 2 - I love music, 3 - the hubby loves music and can play the guitar, 4 - my brother also plays guitar - and the list goes on. Everyone in both our families love music and several people play various instruments.

Nate loves to play his stand-up keyboard, shake his tambourine, and drum on every available surface. So I would love to sign Nate up for a baby/toddler music group. I think he'd love the music and the interaction with other babies his age would be great.

The problem? The class near us either meets when I'm at work, the one night I work late every week, or on Saturday at 9am. Are we home on Saturday at 9am? Sure. Are we awake? Not so much. Even Nate is just barely waking up at 9. So to get us all up, showered, dressed, fed, and out the door by 8:45 is not going to happen.

I'm really frustrated by this because this is something reasonably priced that I would really, really love for Nate to be able to take part of AND for the hubby and I to do with him.

This is when I hate working. If I was home, Nate would be going to this music class, story time at the local bookstore, play time at the park. There'd be so much I'd be able to do with him. I wouldn't have to try and squeeze it all in on the weekends and try to balance being a good mom with getting my homework done.

The Spring music classes go for 10 weeks from April to June. Maybe the next season of classes for Summer will have a session that better suits our schedule. I've looked for other music groups, but this is one of the best and one of the few around, surprisingly. I always thought there were tons of little groups around for parents to take babies/toddlers to, but maybe there's not? Or maybe I'm just not looking the right places?