Nanny Adventures

Please remember that this is the final weekend to enter the INA Membership Giveaway. (full details at this link)
This giveaway is worth $95. That is about 10 movies that you don’t need to skip so that you can get your INA Membership for the upcoming year.
Here is a breakdown of what you need to do:
Starting [...]

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My favorite memorial: The Lincoln Memorial!

Today, I took my friend Kellie to Reagan National Airport at 4:45am. It was still dark when we left my house. As we were driving along George Washington Parkway, the sun was rising in that lovely pink jewel toned sky above DC.  The monuments were lit up from the nighttime [...]

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Michelle just sent out a notice to friends stating:  stop calling and writing CVS! They are taking action! THANK YOU! OUR VOICES WERE HEARD! I received a call from Papatya Tankut, VP of Pharmacy Professional Services. They ARE going to develop educational materials, add something to their website and to their circular about the importance [...]

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Just this week a fellow nanny mom friend, Michelle LaRowe, of mine had a prescription dosage mistake at CVS.  Her 10 mth old daughter was to get 3cc’s of an antibiotic but the CVS pharmacy wrote it as 3 teaspoons, around 15% more than the recommended dosage of antibiotic. Based on this I have learned from [...]

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Since returning from the INA Conference in Dallas 3 weeks ago, my good friend Glenda and I have been brainstorming about how to get the message out to nannies that we can’t simply sit around lamenting about the lack of respect our profession gets. We have to be actively working to improve the image of [...]

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Debuting tomorrow, is my newest blog, The Financial Nanny. I am so excited to be blogging about finances and the traps of being a nanny have sometimes financially. I will be sharing my financial articles I have been and will be writing, some giveaways and links to more giveaways as well as information on various [...]

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The Great Dog Wash is the cutest bilingual book I have read! It has the words in English then underneath it has them in Spainish.  The illustrations are full of life and excitement.  It comes in a box of Cheerios right now.  You need to go to the store and get your box of Cheerios and The Great Dog Wash [...]

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 I just wanted to share with everyone my good friend Sherri’s new blog regarding her Stampin Up biz.  Sherri has helped me this year get out of my “hoarding” my stampin stuff and actually using the stuff.  This is partly why I was able to make over a 100 cards in April.  I am hoping [...]

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Over at Frugal in Virginia, I saw that Mars is giving away free chocolate on Friday May 8 and every Friday through September.  Hurry fast each Friday as they are only giving away 250,000 candy bars.  These include a  coupon that is redeemable for a free single size package of any M&M’S Brand, Milky Way Brand, Snickers [...]

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The International Nanny Association (INA) now has a blog, a facebook page and a twitter page!
If you are still sitting on the fence about joining the INA, then definitely check them out on these pages.  Some great info is on here!

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