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I’m very excited to announce we have hired a Nanny to help with the boys!

Starting the week of February 18th Rachel will start helping out Brenda 2 days a week. This will give Brenda a little bit of a break and allow her to have just a little more freedom to get things done for herself as well as the boys. This also lays the groundwork for giving her the ability to work on some video projects now and then as she wants, which she has already expressed an interest in doing down the road.

We found Rachel through a great Nanny Placement Service called NannySitters. What they do is pre-screen potential Nanny’s by having them fill out an exhaustive questionnaire, check references, and do background checks. They then do their best to match the right Nanny’s to the right families based on the families needs. You’re then provided with multiple resumes to look though, and you are able to phone interview any that you’re interested in. In person interviews are setup if the phone interview goes well.

While we could have done this all on our own without the help of an agency, the benefit of using the agency is that so much of the work is done in advance for you. Not only that, because of the background checks they do and the pre-screening, I feel like we could be a lot more confident with the people we were sent to interview. They were also a very good resource just to have questions answered since we’re new to all of this.

So we’re excited to have found Rachel, who is such a great match for our family and needs. Welcome Rachel!!

Late last week after much thought and consideration, Brenda decided to stop breast feeding. It seems like something that is so natural and easy until you have to do it yourself.  And doing it for two boys instead of one is no easier and pretty exhausting to say the least. Brenda was using a breast pump that we had rented from the hospital (almost $100 per month) that needed to be returned on Sunday or we would be billed for another full month. We figured it was Sunday, they were closed, only to find out on Monday when I called that they are open 7 days a week.

So technically, we owed another full months rental. Just for the heck of it I wrote this letter (download the PDF) and put it inside the pump case. They called on Tuesday morning and said they wouldn’t bill us.

Yea! Every penny counts these days!