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Nanny Time

In less than a week my maternity leave odyssey ends and I return to the lemming-like world of work. To think that over 4 months have passed this quickly is mind-blowing. And really upsetting, because it means I've got to hand over partial baby controls to someone else. Eek!

So, on the recommendation of our pediatrician, we've opted against putting the girls in daycare. Too many germs and their preemie status renders them majorly susceptible to colds.

This means I'm on a nanny hunt. I realize this makes me seem rather fancy but paying a nanny is just about equal to what it would cost to put the ladies in day care -- surprising, dontcha think? We're also considering an au pair, which is even less expensive, though you have to provide room and board. We joke about the au pair ("the year of the stinky live-in nanny") but it's an option for down the road.

Anyway, I listed our job description on craigslist and have received some interesting responses. Yesterday I conducted a phone interview with a woman who repeated herself multiple times. As in, "I have experience with infants, with infants, I have experience experience with infants". No, I'm not kidding. Very distracting.

Tomorrow and Friday we are interviewing 3 people. My two main questions are going to be, "if you could be any brand of children's diaper, which would it be and why?" and "do you shake babies?"

9:03 p.m. 2006-12-06

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