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Sharon, that's too funny. We're members of OK. We always assumed we'd use the Full Day preschool, until the Jewish Montessori school in Bethesda opened, and now we'll be considering both. :-) It's a really nice "problem" to have.
The conversion issue isn't a problem for us... we will have an orthodox conversion. I was raised orthodox, and much of my family is still hasidic, so it's more for family reasons then anything else that we've chosen an orthodox conversion (my husband was raised reform). I was just relaying one woman's experience regarding the problems she had at some of the area day schools (and actually, she is an OK member as well). But yes, I'm familiar with mikvah (and will put in a plug for the gorgeous new mikvah that opened in Georgetown near Kesher -- it's really so much nicer then the other local ones that I've seen, though I've never been to Adas' or any other conservative mikvah). I have to say, tho, I'm a lot less nervous about the Brit now that we're adopting from Guatemala, and with any luck will be able to have the Brit when our baby is around 6 months old -- rather then having a Brit of a year+ child, which was what the baby was that we were expecting to have (lost referral after visit trip in Russia -- devastating).
BTW, since you mention that you adopted from China, have you read The Bamboo Cradle?
Anyway, small world :-)
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