Nanny Adventures

There are just so many things happening at work right now I could write several posts and still not be done
Rewind to last week, I went away for the 4th of July weekend to my Aunt & Uncle’s house in Virginia Beach. It was very relaxing. I sat on the couch and worked [...]

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Stop and give me 50!  We are going through some “potty” mouth talk in the house with all the kidlets.  It is driving me crazy. Since 2 out of 3 of them are on Spring Break this week, I decided to get creative.  Every time I hear a “cuss word” out of there mouth they [...]

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Last night I finally got home from seeing the movie “New in Town” (it was a great little romantic comedy), and kidlet #1 knocked on my door.  He had to volunateer today from 7am till 1:30pm and there was not metro access where he was going. He needed me to either take him and pick [...]

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It is Sunday and I have alot on my plate for the week. The good news is that it is regular week as far as I know right now.
This means that I pick the kidlet #3 up tomorrow at school at 3pm, come home do homework, make dinner, take a shower and watch One Tree Hill [...]

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So kidlet #3 lied to me and his mom about cleaning his room for the cleaning people that came on Tuesday.  He has lost privelages of going on errands and watching TV.   Now most kids would be thrilled to not have to run errands, but he kinda of likes going to do things like that.
Tonight [...]

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Today I had to take my boss’s car in because they went in a pothole and got a flat. I was told to get a rental car for the day. This morning I had to drop Kidlet #3 off at school on my way to get the car fixed, he told me to get a [...]

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Kidlet #3 is out of school today like alot of the kids around here, so he was going with me to vote.  He is very much an Obama supporter and wanted me to vote for Obama.  He was curious about how things worked with the voting booths etc.  We got there right before 10am.  Maybe [...]

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Yesterday I didn’t get a chance to post any wisdom so I thought I would combine it with today’s thinking post. 
Recently on some of my nanny groups/message boards , a few nannies have made comments about not wanting to leave their jobs because they feel bad for the kids for xyz reasons, and then others [...]

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Back in 1999, my one nanny family offered to pay for one class a semester for me to go to school.  I was so excited.  I choose to take a Business class.  Over the next few years I took several classes.  I was able to transfer a large portion of my classes from my BS [...]

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Recently there have been a lot of nannies in my online groups and locally that have been leaving their nanny jobs.  Some of these nannies have been with their families for 15 years, 8 years and just 2 years.  Each nanny has wondered how to leave their family.  Being a nanny is not an easy [...]

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