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[quote=Anonymous]I am a nanny for kids who are in school.  The parents work demanding jobs with unpredictable schedules.  The youngest in in 1st grade.

On a typical week I arrive at 7:30 in the morning and get the kids fed and ready for school, then clean up from breakfast and packing lunches.

One day per week I go grocery shopping for the family.

The next day I do my big cooking for the week—I pack salads for one parent’s lunches, the other parent prefers canned soup for lunch but I cut up veggies for his snack, I bake muffins or something along those lines for the kids’ breakfasts and freeze it.  And I prep two family dinners and 3 kid-only dinners.

Then one day per week I do all the kids’ laundry (including their sheets and towels).

The last two days are my choice.  Sometimes I take on projects like organizing the playroom or packing for an upcoming trip or sorting through clothes and ordering the next size up, sometimes I do things like volunteer at their schools and sometimes I just take me time.  It depends on the week.

Then I do pickup and take everybody to any after school activities and make sure they do homework and practice reading and piano and take a bath.  I hand kids off in pjs either fed at 6:30 or with family dinner on the table at 5:30

I work 53 hours in a typical week.  I cover all sicks days, school closures, etc.  kids do about 4 weeks of camps to break up the summer but other than that they are with me.  I usually take the kids camping one week and the parents pay for gas and food and the campsite fees and one week the kids and I stay with my family who live near the beach and the parents pay for gas and food plus one night of nice takeout to thank my family.

On weeks when we are home I still do my normal duties but I order groceries for delivery rather than shopping myself, and if the kids and I are traveling I obviously don’t cook for the parents that week.[/quote]

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