I have been living on soft floaty clouds for some time with a heavenly live-out nanny and a fab male AP. But as with all dreams it looks like it is coming to an end...
Were I work in the city is not doing so well, so it looks as if I might have to let my nanny go. She knows this and we are keeping our fingers crossed that I might be able to sort something out in the short term to keep her, but it is looking like an uphil struggle. It is such a shame as she has known my DS since birth when he attended a nursery where she worked (he is now 5.5) and we had hoped she would look after DD until she started school at least....
So, is there anyone out there who might need a nanny in the next few months? She is 24, very laid back, good humoured and I trust her 100%. In the 18 months she has worked directly for me I have never had to pull her up on anything and I swear she has never ever even irritated me. She will do whatever I ask happily. She is very keen on taking kids to the park, local castles, forests etc and is very reliable and a safe driver. She gives me very long handover details every night (and if I am late she telephones them in). She will spend hours with them on making things and practising letters and so on. She never moans if she has to stay on late, and she often comes in and just starts cleaning the house if the kids aren't up. We have her doing very odd hours and she is quite happy to do this (we have her doing 6am starts and 11pm finishes on a rota basis and she is cool with that)
If I were to list negatives I really would struggle. She has never been more than 10 minutes late (normally bang on time). I guess there are two things - she smokes, but never ever around the children or when working. Also, she doesn't make meals form scratch but does the pasta/omelette/sandwich thing, but that's probably it in terms of where someone else might be better than her...she isn't level 3 NVQ'd but she does have 2 years experience in a nursery, 1 year in a holiday resort and 18 months with us. And her aunt runs a home for children with difficult care needs and my nanny spent lots of time there when growing up, so she is very comfortable with special needs. She loves animals and when our dog was desperately ill and soiling the floors she thought nothing of mopping up after him.
She earns a salary which I don't think would put anyone off employing her, and would ideally like a live out job (we are near Canterbury) or if not I think she might be willing to consider a Mon-Friday live-in role so that she can get home at weekends to her boyfriend....
Anyone potentially interested?