After 3 weeks of trying the preschool summer program Giant Steps, Mateo is now, at least according to andrea and me, ready to get into school. This 3rd week of June, he would be attending the youngest preschool class in the school where andrea and I are working.

This presents both an advantage and a disadvantage for andrea. Since mateo would be preoccupied with school for at least 2 hours a day, she would have at least 2 uninterrupted hours of reprieve from our little babsy. However, because she’s doing part time work for the school and someone else, she needs to bring her laptop with her most of the time to do some online writing. Unfortunately, with her recent laptop being 14″ big and roughly more than 2 kilograms, this becomes a considerable feat of strength – lugging around mateo’s stuff plus an almost 3-kg notebook.

So after much debate, we finally decided to downgrade (or upgrade depending on how you look at it) her laptop into a netbook. She sold her laptop to a co-teacher and bought a pink MSI Wind with the proceeds. Now she carries with her a 10″, atom-run laptop with a storage capacity of 250 Gb and a 2 Gb system memory (plua a little smile to go with her new toy).

She might be ranting about the work load and other stuff but she can’t help but give a sheepish grin whenever I mention her new wind.