{"id":904,"date":"2013-11-18T20:33:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2013-11-18T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T20:33:56","slug":"the-nanny-diary-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/the-nanny-diary-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The nanny diary: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we\u2019re doing something a little different. A real life series of 5 posts detailing the first 5 days from a nanny and a mother\u2019s perspective!<\/p>\n

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Nanny:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My alarm went of at 6.15am this morning and I practically sprinted out of bed into the shower. I needed to be at my new job for 7.30 and I really didn\u2019t want to be late. It turns out that there is very little traffic so I ended up being 20 minutes early and parked my car around the corner and waited. I rang the doorbell 5 minutes early, which felt a little odd knowing that in a couple of hours I\u2019d have keys and probably wouldn\u2019t be ringing the bell every morning!<\/p>\n

Everyone was having breakfast when I walked in and MB offered me some toast, but I ate breakfast before I left. It\u2019s good to know I can have breakfast at work. 5 minutes more sleep! Then it was all systems go brushing teeth, putting on coats and shoes and getting out the door to go to school. There are 4 children, 2 at school, 1 doing half days at nursery and 1 at home full time, so there\u2019s a lot to get ready and we\u2019re going to be walking everywhere. Thankfully I have 2 days with MB at home to get all the local routes and shortcuts in my head. MB explains the rules and I\u2019m glad we seem on the same page.<\/p>\n

After an hour out and about we\u2019re at home and baby is napping in the pram so we have a cuppa and run through a typical week, MB shows me how all the appliances work and shares her routine for getting the housework that I\u2019ll be taking on done although she says I don\u2019t have to stick to it, and once baby woke up she made a start preparing lunch while I fed baby and played a little game of peekaboo. Soon it was time to head out to nursery and fetch charge number 3. We all ate lunch together and I managed to get spaghetti sauce down my top. Ooops.<\/p>\n

This afternoon was my first time alone with the younger two, which they spend napping, and I decided to make a treasure basket as they don\u2019t seem to have one. They woke up just before needed to go to the school run so it was a bit of a rush to prepare a bottle and get ready and leave. I\u2019m not used to leaving this much time for walking so I\u2019m going to have to make a note to watch that especially this week.<\/p>\n

After-school was a blur of taking number 1 to a violin lesson, taking number 2 to karate (is there anything cuter than a bunch of 5 year olds doing karate?), picking up number 1, picking up number 2, eating tea, doing homework\/reading and getting everyone ready for bed. I feel exhausted and I have no idea how MB has been doing this on her own. Most nights she says she\u2019ll be home by 5 so we\u2019ll sort out the last hour and a half between us but if she has a late meeting I can see myself running in circles.<\/p>\n

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Mother:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night I was writing down everything I need to talk about and I didn\u2019t realise how much I do until I was trying to consciously explain while doing it. I\u2019m sure there are things I\u2019ve forgotten to talk about today. I’ve also realised I\u2019m not looking forward to the end of maternity leave and I\u2019m feeling a bit funny about having a nanny because we\u2019ve always used nursery or a childminder but fingers crossed it will make life that much easier.<\/p>\n

First day seems to have gone okay. I\u2019m desperately trying not to step in and let her find her own way of doing things. I\u2019m also trying to feel my way through the etiquette of having a nanny. Should she be eating breakfast with the children in the morning? Will she eat dinner with them in the evening? Do I need to justify every parenting move I\u2019ve made or is it all common sense?<\/p>\n

I’m reassured that she took the pace of the day in her stride – it\u2019s all go to get to nursery at 8.30, school at 8.45, nursery at 11.30, lunch and naps, school at 3.30 and anything after-school so having someone who can keep to time and get where they need is so important. Tomorrow is the day for letting go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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