Another one bites the dust

We seem to be very hard on nannies. In the short time since we decided this would be a good solution for our child care conundrum we have gone through two. Our first nanny was quite lovely but not as flexible in her schedule as we would have liked. She left after getting married. We took a nanny hiatus for a while but that wasn't really a great solution either. I found myself the complete embodiment of a "Mombie" after working a few night shifts and trying to stay up with the kids the whole next day. After copious amounts of caffeine and a gruelling round of interviews we finally found our new nanny. We thought we loved her. We thought she was the answer to our childcare prayers and the vision of our nanny dreams. We were wrong. It became quickly and abruptly obvious that she lacked maturity, she was constantly telling us dramatic stories about her life and making excuses about leaving early. Suddenly she was asking for advance pay cheques and for us to loan her money. What had seemed at first to be the perfect woman was quickly turning into nightmare fuel. We went back and forth for a couple of days but finally she came to the decision that she would like to step back from her position with us. So here we are back into the Mombie, nanny search, hamster wheel. Good riddance to the last one and here is hoping the next one is a better match.