Overcompensating
posted in Child Care, Mom Rants, Fashion |Things aren’t going terribly well in the Great Nanny Hunt of 2007. Let me put it this way: quantity doesn’t mean quality. Meaning, my husband and I only requested one callback out of six candidates to meet our son. Could it have been that one had absolutely NO experience as a nanny? Or was it the comment one of the potential nannies made about the “mean Jewish family” she used to work for? Hello, did she not SEE the bend in my nose, brown eyes and frizzy hair? (In her defense, it IS rather humid in Chicago this week.) Whatever it was, yesterday put me over the edge.
So I did what any insane working mom with-no-nanny would do. I went on shopping bender. It’s the perfect antidote to the blogging and nanny-searching bender. Especially when the purchases arrive the next day like these:
I bet you’re wondering what came in such a HUGE box. Or why I have two.
Or when they are really expensive, even though you could get a great knock-off at the Gap, like these:
There’s no way I’m linking to the brand name or price of these khakis.
Or when they are really pointless, but totally cute, like these:
Neither rain nor gloom of night nor whatever stays this mommy from the swift completion of her nanny hunt.
Ahhh… I feel so much better now. And really, aren’t I, in essence, saving money this week because I’m not paying for a nanny? If you care, that’s how I am going to rationalize all of this to my husband when he finds out what I did.
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