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[quote=Anonymous]DS 6 is starting 1st grade this week.  I’m solo parenting while DH is deployed and honestly do most of the parenting labor since even when he’s here DH starts work early and gets home late.

With school starting Monday, someone recommended a “morning nanny” to me who needs hours from 7-9 am.  This would be $25/hour.  I don’t need this service because my son is pretty reliable in the morning, he gets up without a problem, gets dressed without a problem, and usually has a very simple breakfast of a muffin and fruit or something like that.  The bus stop is a very quick walk, and school is a five minute drive or less, so it’s not a hardship for me to take him.

However, I asked this person if she would also clean.  I told her I needed help with washing the dishes from the night before, cleaning up the area around where my son eats, wiping down the powder room daily, doing our daily laundry including putting it away, vacuuming, and also properly cleaning the bathrooms once a week or so.  She came over the other day for a trial run. From 7 to 8:40 in the morning (8:40 would be the time to leave for school), she was able to make breakfast for DS and accomplish all of these things, and that is with the house being a bit messy (full dishwasher, dishes in the sink, A few loads of laundry that needed to be washed and put away). I asked her to let me know how much she’s charge to do all of this, and I think she’ll come back with $30/hour on the high end.

All in all this service will run me $300 weekly.  We make enough money that we can max out our retirement and contribute to a college fund and have a few extras, But we certainly can’t throw away $1200 a month. We have to be mindful about where it’s coming from and what we are going to cut.  However, I think I’ll be getting freedom from housework, which just sounds so amazing to me.  Do you think it’s worth it to hire this person?

Well I don’t need a morning nanny to take care of my son, the idea that I could start my workday by taking a not rushed shower, with my son eating a proper breakfast, with not having to worry about getting him to school on time, and with the house being clean and laundry done and put away well that… I mean that sounds amazing.  [/quote]

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