Nanny Adventures

I’m proud to announce the launch of the new site Regarding Nannies. Together with Glenda Propst and Kellie Geres , we have created a site that incorporates all aspects of today’s professional nanny.

Each week we will bring you:
Monday Moxie – is a roundup of nanny tidbits, news from the industry, some of our favorite websites [...]

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Today is my friend, Jen’s last day at her nanny job of 16 years! I have been a professional nanny for 14 years this June. The longest I have been with a family is four years. I am hoping I will be with my current family for 7 years, 2 down this July.  I hope [...]

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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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I have known Kathy Webb of 4nannies.com  , Nanny Network  and    since coming to the DC area in 1996 as a professional nanny.   Last year, she undertook the wonderful job of blogging updates on Nannytaxes.   Her blog has provided me with so many “tax” updates that I wasn’t fully aware of among other things. 
Today’s blog  was especially [...]

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I heard about this digital photo company called Artscow over at Southern Savers, you can get 1200 free prints (100 per month) when you sign up. 
After signing up, you can also use the code : FREE10BKS  to receive 10 free 20 page photo albums.  You need to pay for shipping and handling, which was reasonable when [...]

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Well the days of geting 58.5 cents a mile from your employers is over now.  The IRS has released it’s 2009 gas mileage rates and they are now 55 cents a miles.
This is not so terrible.  Just remember to continue tracking your miles for work.  The IRS does accept google/live/mapquest’s mileage for directions as acceptable [...]

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My friend is known as the “Carseat Nanny” in our circle of nannies online.  She has become a certified car seat tech and has been sharing such wonderful information with all of us.  I want everyone to know about her blog!  She is the proud mom of a  23  month little girl who is just [...]

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I received this from an email from a fellow nanny. I thought it was pretty clever, not sure where she got it from. I wanted to pass it on to others who might not have a house alarm system, but would like something just in case.

PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT
If [...]

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I am now officially addicted to entering contests online.  I know crazy but today I got an email update from www.prizey.com  and on it was a link to win 2 free Dripsticks.    I immediately went to the site and looked at it! I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE them! 
They are basically a holder for popsicles on sticks or ice [...]

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This past weekend I was with some nannies and agencies at a conference.  I was eating lunch with an agency that had been in business a long time.  I was discussing with her , how at the Saturday lunch , we had a table conversation about why agencies pull credit checks on nannies, before placing them [...]

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