In the past two weeks I have barely had enough to breath, let alone blog. But now I'm sitting home on a glorious Tuesday afternoon and it's grand. There's been a lot going on with new house guest, new kids, new jobs, old jobs, and wedding plans. In one of my last post I posted about starting a nanny job for the Spring. Well I started that 3 weeks ago today, and left it Friday. At first when I went to "interview" I met with the parents and they had a typed list of job duties. They all seemed reasonable. Watch the kids, do their laundry, wash the babies laundry, and HELP fold the parents laundry. At first I was like "Hey, Sure I can do this!" In my mind I'm thinking the kids at 14 months sleep a good portion of the day and I could help them do all that stuff. Well was I ever, ever, ever, ever wrong! As sweet as the kids are, how can say this gently and with as much love as possible? They are very high maintenance. They sleep approximately 1 and a half hours a day, they get massages, they eat only freshly prepared food (salmon, mac & cheese {but with real cheese only}, boiled fruit, chicken burgers, meatballs, pasta, etc), they get changed every hour, and must have development songs, and play time every day. My hours in the beginning I thought were going to be really cool. Go in at 10-10:30, sometimes on Monday's 12:30 or 1 and leave by 6. Well I started and all that I thought I signed up for was not right. My weekly scheduled changed twice a day! I am NOT exaggerating! I would go in, in the morning with one schedule for the next day only to find it had been changed, and then by the time I left it would have changed again. Then I was working 9.5 hour days, going in at 9 AM and staying until 7. On top of that I was organizing kitchen cabinets, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms and doing the parents laundry!!!!!! All in between watching the kids that only slept an hour, and the little boy couldn't scream to long because he would vomit! The worst part...it was ONLY $11 an hour. I'm used to making double that for less work. It was ridiculous! Every day I would come home I would basically cry to Shawn how awful it seemed. Finally last week I decided that in order for me to continue this for the next 5 months I would have to lay some ground rules. But I was going to wait to talk to them until I had been there a month which would have been April 6th. However, Friday was straw that broke the camels back. My future mother in law was coming in to town and we had made plans to meet her for an early dinner based on me getting off at 3:30. I come in to work Friday at 9 AM and the mom says that I'm staying until 4. I look at her and I'm like "I can't I made plans based off the schedule you gave me Wednesday and I can NOT break them" and she was like "Well next time you need to check the bored every day" I just nodded. But I'm thinking, "Why should I have to do that?! Don't I have a life to? I'm not at your beck and call" Then she says to me to finish her laundry before I go. But I didn't get a chance to because I had to make food for her to have for the weekend, vacuum, all while running up and down the stairs giving pacifiers. So when I go to leave she says "Maybe you can fold the laundry Monday. Try to do it right after its washed, I can try to get to it this weekend" And I'm thinking, yeah your gonna be doing it this weekend because I'm not touching it Monday. Once I get home I talked to my mom and thought it was best that I didn't wait to email her. So I did, I emailed her a long list of my complaints, and I stated in there that I did not have a problem finishing out the term, but it would be on my terms. Well guess what? Friday night I get an email wishing me best of luck because they had concerns about my competence and actual experience! Actual experience and competence? Seriously! She couldn't even change a diaper when she first had them. Either way, it didn't matter because I was secretly using the email as a way to get out. So now I'm out of it, and it's awesome! I don't have a job, I am looking, but not with vigor. There's more to write about, but right now I'm tired and want to watch Lost, so I'll write later....
