Sunday, March 10, 2013

Date Weekend With My Daughter


Playing single mom is HARD. I always give mad props to the single moms of the world when motoboy goes out of town. He hasn't really traveled without me since last summer's race season - and granted baby is a lot easier now, at 11 months and able to play on her own - then she was at 6 weeks when she would just cry constantly after 6pm. But yet, it's a long day when she decides to only take two half hour naps. And maybe that saison beer at lunch with S.W. tasted good, but didn't make for a lot of energy in the afternoon.


But I am so much happier now that the nanny issue has been resolved. We found Clara, from a posting on a mom site (I was only interested in other moms recommending their nannies they could use no longer) and she came over the same night, understood about my freelance life, and decided to take us on for the month of March despite it. I mean, it is cash money after all. And baby is pretty easy as far as babies go. The great bonus is that I can tell she just loves babies, and is so sweet to our girl. But even better than that is that she is restless - and can't stand dog hair, which we have plenty of to go around, so insists on vacuuming the rug and the hardwood floors. The first two days she was here she had the vacuum out both days. She also likes to do laundry - which is handy when you have cloth diapers. And she does the baby clothes too but I had to stop her at adult laundry. We need to have some chores for ourselves. (Like my mom said, 'don't take advantage and pick up after yourself still.' Aww MOM.) So hopefully I can keep her, but my current work might come to an end at the end of March.  So if I am a free agent in April, and there are a few weeks gap, it's possible she might find another full time job and I could not really blame her for that. EXCEPT. Her daughter had twins in California and I know she wants to go out and spend a few months with her. But maybe not until the summer. So maybe she would not mind staying with a casual job like I can offer. And maybe nanny J will be willing to take in charges once her little one is bigger this summer...and and...

See, the brain, and the childcare, it never stops churning.

I still have a twitch in my eye but I don't know if it's stress related still - I think I need a weekend morning lie in, which looks like it won't happen for some time. I hope motoboy is enjoying his motorcycling around the hills and deserts of San Diego. He better be ready for some baby times when he gets back.

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