{"id":925,"date":"2013-11-22T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2013-11-22T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:49:32","slug":"the-nanny-diary-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/the-nanny-diary-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The nanny diary: Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post brings us to the end of our series following a nanny and a mother through the first week of a new job. If you missed the first posts you can find them here: Day 1<\/a>, Day 2<\/a>, Day 3<\/a>, Day 4<\/a>. And if you’re interested in writing a guest post or a nanny diary of your own then get in touch!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

I felt really nervous all day with the chat looming in the evening.<\/p>\n

I had questions of my own:<\/p>\n

Do you still want me as your nanny?<\/p>\n

Is there anything I did this week you would prefer I did differently? Is there anything I didn\u2019t do?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad to say they still want me! And no major changes to be made! Which is a huge weight off my mind because nannying is such a personal job that when it doesn\u2019t work out you feel like someone has broken up with you. Three more weeks of the probationary period to go still but a good start. It turns out it wasn\u2019t anything bad at all, she just wanted time to think about real solutions to the stuff I\u2019d raised throughout the week and I get the feeling that\u2019s more her style than giving a quick yes or no answer, which I\u2019m glad I discovered now before I need to ask something really important. Plus we\u2019re probably getting a double pushchair and I\u2019ve got a budget and free reign to choose two to show MB which I think is a really good sign, because if they didn\u2019t want me to stay they wouldn\u2019t be prepared to spend money on something they don\u2019t really want, right?<\/p>\n

Overall today was better than yesterday. No tantrums at least and I was super-efficient at getting all the jobs done. \u00a0I\u2019m speeding up on the school run and probably getting fitter as a result and learning just how much leeway there is in the routine. It\u2019s amazing how fast things become second nature, although I still need to check the schedule every morning before we start to make sure both boys have what they need for the morning even if I\u2019ve put it ready the evening before.<\/p>\n

I checked the calendar for the next month as well to give myself a heads up on anything important and it\u2019s charge number 3\u2019s birthday in two weeks, which brings a whole new load of challenges, not least how her siblings are going to be able to make her a card without her finding out! I\u2019m really enjoying having such a busy job again. It\u2019s a totally different kind of challenge.<\/p>\n

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

It\u2019s Friday! And I don\u2019t have piles of laundry! And the bedrooms are clean and tidy! I\u2019m never letting this woman leave. That\u2019s all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post brings us to the end of our series following a nanny and a mother through the first week of a new job. If you missed the first posts you can find them here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4. And if you’re interested in writing a guest post or a nanny … Continue reading “The nanny diary: Day 5”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[299,306,373,443],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nannies","tag-nanny","tag-nanny-employer-relationship","tag-parent","tag-settling-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}