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Who’s Your Nanny?

November 4, 2007 by

So, I rocked up at the appointed time. It’s been a while since I was there, but that’s cool the kids and I go way back. Mum and I shoot the breeze and fill in the blanks for the last couple of months and then she drops the big one.
Oh, by the way, there’s a houseful of kids, I should have told you…
By houseful she means 7.
Just upgraded from nanny to crowd control.
7 ranging in ages from soon to be 5 to 13. All primed on pizza and soda and lined up to watch the latest crop of M-rated movies Mum’s hired… even the wee’un.
So, I watch the first with them. Blades of Glory. Laughed till it hurt. Then let them watch Norbit on their own. So not my bag.
Go down at 9 to pick the 5 year old off the floor and heft her upstairs and put her to bed. Return at 10 to give the others the hurry up.
Finally get them all into their respective rooms and spend the next hour fighting them to get back into their respective beds (3 girls in 1, 3 boys in the other) and finally get so jack of it I read the riot act.
Mum and Dad come home half an hour later. 12.30am. I give them the report, including the fact I’d had to get tough. They were delighted and apologetic all at once and we go check on the kids.
1 boy missing. Toad. Probably in the girls’ room…
Nonetheless, I walk away with $120 for 6 hours work. Now that’s why I keep going back.
Because a nanny don’t mind working for someone who pays fair.

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Comments

  1. freddysmama says

    November 5, 2007 at 11:34 am

    ooof! 7 kids, nightmare!
    BTW – I have corned Beef in my freezer…

  2. Fi says

    November 5, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Seven kids? That’d be $120 an hour for my services thank you kindly!
    Good earner though :)

  3. Ronnica says

    November 6, 2007 at 3:07 am

    I agree that being paid well makes the babysitting job all the sweeter! I just posted about something that happened last week while I was babysitting.

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