The nanny was sick yesterday. Uh… yeah… that totally sucked.
It made me realize, even more than I knew before, how astonishingly stupid we were to work full-time and care for the kid for the first four months of his life. Even now, typing this I am amazed that we did it - that we survived [...]
Having a nanny share has been pretty great. The nanny is extremely patient and caring…and ambitious. She is determined to get Harrison to roll-back-over (something he’s been having a bit of a struggle with) and to get him to self-sooth to sleep. While these are both excellent goals, they create a fair bit of crying. [...]
Having a nanny is supposed to give me more time devoted to work so that my evenings can be devoted to my husband and son. Why is it then, that the day is gone, I have yet to post until now, and I am surviving on coffee, water and energy cookies because I worked until [...]
It’s quiet in our house right now… this leads me to believe that the nanny has successfully put the boy down for a nap OR she has duct-tapped our son’s mouth shut, locked him in a closet and taken the other child from the nanny-share away from our house of screaming fussiness.
The other child has [...]
The nanny started yesterday, and because there is too much to write - to many emotions to wrap my tiny little brain around about how great, scary, difficult it is to hand your son over to another person to care for while you are just in another room - I will post this:
Two boys, hanging [...]
The nanny starts at our house tomorrow. We are doing a nanny-share with another family that has a son only a few days older than Harrison. She started with the other family last week. Tomorrow is her first day here. When I think about her starting to care for our son part of me feels [...]
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