I'm definitely going to start back on Atkins diet today and am looking forward to it. I just want someone else to do the menu and cook it for me! I actually had a cook one time- just before baby # 3 was born. I had placenta previa. Confined to bed. Had an 11 month old and a 5 yo. Mother came down to help out with the children but needed someone to help with meal preparations.
One recent evening all the boys were around the dinner table. We talked about all the different people we had to help us with our boys. It was a riot! Two years we had different weekend help from the weekday help! And we also had someone take care of odd jobs inside/outside the house. I always remembered what one of my tennis partners said: " we'll be poor but at least we'll be sane". So true!
We were happy when we were able to finally say 'good bye' to the last Nanny. We missed our privacy but all those people helped us through. Every now and then we remember something one of them did that stood out. What comes to mind right now is the year we had a family reunion in Kohler, Wisc. Miserably hot, humid June weekend. It was a Friday afternoon, everyone leaves town. We had to go in 2 cars due to space the car seats take. The trip is usually a 2 1/2 hour trip. It took us nearly hours to get there. We were going to have a family picture the next morning at 10. When we got to the American Club, just before 9, the boys needed to run around a bit before they had to go to bed. We unpacked to cars. And their clothes were nowhere! Their bags were left in their rooms. It was the au pair's job to get them packed and help load up our cars. But I did have the diapers.
My husband drove back to Winnetka ( had a new fuzz buster) and drove back to Kohler, all within 4 hours! We never saw that au pair again.
2010 does feel like a new chapter. I hope it's a good one.
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