This weekend my youngest daughter got her drivers license, so she is now able to take herself places, and dissolving the role of our nanny. We have had our nanny for 20 years (since my oldest was 3 months old), so my youngest has known her for her whole life. She has picked my daughter up from school every day, taken her to sports/activities, organized around the house, started dinner, and cleaned the house (every Fri for additional $). Both my daughter and our nanny has known this day to be coming for a while, but I can tell my daughter is very upset and sad as she has been with our nanny for hours each day and still remembers adventures they went on from preschool. Our nanny has had a very tough life, having lived in Brazil and having her husband shot and killed right in front of her and her 4 children. She had to leave her kids and come to America (where we took her in to work for us) and send $ back to her family in Brazil. Even though she doesn't speak English very well, my daughter understand her the best because they are around each other the most (and she is taking Spanish). Obviously I am emotional as this woman has spent a third of her life (she is 60 now) looking after my 2 daughters. We would all love for her to stay, but nothing is forever and my daughter clearly doesn't need someone watching her approaching her senior year of high school. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.