Nanny Adventures

My kidlets came home about 15 minutes ago saying “I have a fish”  I was like what.   Kidlet 1 & 3 won goldfish at the fair earlier tonight.  Kidlet #2 adopted a fish from another person who was already abandoning their “child”    They each were carrying a bag with blue colored water with a lively goldfish [...]

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preteen and teen drama classes …..
So Kidlet #1 and #3 are in two different dram camps this summer.  They are both in a play as well.  This week is Kidlet #1’s big debut…singing, dancing and acting!   Jokingly the other kidlets and I have offered to sell his tickets to his friends on facebook :)   We [...]

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Last night I was driving home from a visit with some friends I had not seen in awhile. When I was almost home I realized that Kidlet #1 was driving before me.  I was like mmm, his curfew is 11pm.   We both pulled up to the house at the same time. 
He had just come home [...]

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Kidlet #1 has been gone for 2 days now.   Kidlet #2 and #3 have been here doing various things.  It has been really interesting seeing the dynamics of the Kidlet #2 and #3 together.  I think over the next two weeks they will have a special bonding period that normally doesn’t happen. 
Dinner has been drama [...]

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of not having Kidlet #1 at home will be strange.  He is going away for two weeks on a service project abroad.  When he gets home it is off to look at various colleges for a week, home for 3 days then off for a week at the beach with family.  
He is the fill in [...]

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It is official we are getting a new cleaning company to come to the house in one week to do a thorough deep cleaning of the house.  The dust bunnies and their spider friends will all go to “cleaner heaven”  This is going to be awesome.  The place will sparkle and be dust free!
The biggest [...]

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So Kidlet 1 & 2 are out of school. Kidlet #3 has 2 more weeks of school.  This will be an interesting week as they are home and one in school.   I wonder if there will be fighting ensuing
Kidlet #2 and I will most likely get our haircut on Monday or Tuesday. I [...]

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I have been off work since Thursday evening.  It has been great, exhausting, profitable and exhausting!   I loaded my car up twice with items for my yard sale that I was having at my friend’s house in Pennsylvania.  
But more on that later, today my oldest, Kidlet #1 is home because school is out.  He came [...]

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A few weeks ago, my nanny group had a lady come talk to us about nutrition for ourselves and our charges. One of things she suggested was using Barilla’s Plus Pasta . I had bought a box of the thin spaghetti with some regular thin spaghetti.  I had some of the Barilla Plus pasta when I [...]

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So there is a little running joke between me and the oldest, Kidlet #1.  When he started driving with me last fall for driver’s education, he would park very close to the stone wall in the driveway.  I would say “Hey , I am not Kate Moss!”  He looked puzzled and then I explained that [...]

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