We interviewed nanny’s this weekend. A hellish task for me since I currently believe the entire world is incapable of caring for my children. That includes their father.
Of course, most everyone cares for them better than I do, head usually buried in my laptop and with little patience for things like play dough…but that doesn’t stop me from judging everyone incompetent in their babysitting ways.
To know me is to love me.
Anyway.
The great Nanny inquisition of Fall 2008 was underway this weekend as a totally unqualified 19-year old sweetly came into the home and turned my 5-year old to a puddle of goo.
He gazed at her. He giggled at her. He had the goofiest grin on his face and this absent stare about him that I nearly kicked her out right then and there. Instead we finished the interview and she politely left. Then my kindergartner pretty much walked around the house with those hearts and birds circling his head for the rest of the day.
Now I’m sitting here looking at our final candidates, with credentials that span from nanny schools in London to teaching credentials and there’s my son, grinning and giggling over the least qualified of the bunch and swearing to me she’d be the “BEST BABYSITTER EVER, MOMMY.”
I’m dying to make some obvious Sarah Palin comparisons here, but I’m going to try and keep it all in check until Thursday night and the VP debate of the century. I’m also going to be happy that I will have a new nanny by then. One that will no doubt be OVER-qualified for watching two kids and not just a pretty face.
If you live in Southern California, I highly encourage you to join the debate watch party where we will be eating, drinking, and critiquing every single move Biden and Palin make.
Register here to join myself and some fabulous bloggers!
My 2yo has a crush on my friend’s husband. She seriously did the hands on face staring into space thing once when he was talking. She’s gaga over him, it totally cracks us up!
You need to have a drinking game at your debate party. Every time Palin says “gotta” you have to drink.
I spend way too much time on the computer. When I saw your invitation I was convinced that the party was virtual and I thought :Cool! I’m going to do that!” Then I realized I was hundreds of miles away, in St. Louis, where our school, one block away from Washington University, will be letting out early because the Secret Service is shutting down the neighborhood at 5:00 pm.
She’s no Jack Kennedy.
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