Seven years ago I was in desperate need of a babysitter, and I put an ad out on Sittercity.com. I didn’t really expect anything to come from it, but I figured it was worth a shot. That one decision led to an eventual knock on our door from a beautiful, smart, funny, ballsy, super cool […]
babysitters
Mom, You Look AMAZING! (which dress did I pick?)
Here on the blog, CCB is short for Cool College Babysitter. When I first started writing the blog, CCB was our babysitter. Number 7 wasn’t even born when she started babysitting. Now she’s all grown up. And tomorrow she’s getting married. More to come on that tomorrow or Sunday. If you follow me on Facebook, […]
Battle of the Sexes
Last week I went out for a few beers with these three: That’s CCB and two of her buddies, Doc and Karl. Doc is in grad school and Karl is about to graduate from college. They are home for Spring Break. Doc and Karl were both talking a bunch of trash to CCB about taking […]
One part tough. Two parts irresistible.
Contrary to what you may think after reading yesterday’s post, I liked the Alice I interviewed on Monday. A lot. And I’m really looking for much more than an Alice. The job I posted was entitled ” looking for nanny/personal assistant/housekeeper.” I made it clear that it wasn’t strictly watching the kids. Or cleaning. Or running […]
They’re not going to make this easy for me.
Last week I started the search to find my Alice. I interviewed my first candidate yesterday. On paper, she seemed perfect. Mid fifties, mother of two grown girls, used to run a daycare out of her home… I found her on Sittercity. We’ve had luck there before. We’ve also met a couple of winners from that […]
She’s no Mary Poppins, that’s for sure.
I still don’t totally know how to use my iPad. But I know how to use it to shut my kids up. They would stare at that thing and play games on it all day long if I allowed them to. I used to sit in judgement of parents who bought children under the age […]