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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if I read you right, every other week the kids will be with the nanny for 3 days & nights while both you and DH are on the road? Is that tenable? (Answer: no, unless you have Grandma living with you, or some other arrangement you haven't mentioned).

Will DH quit or scale back if you take this?[/quote]

Well - some of the travel will be day trips and I have told the company that the weeks DH is travelling I can only do day trips and not overnight. Right now they are making all the right noises about working with me on this.

Yes DH has offered to scale back and work with me on this.

We might have the odd occasion when the nanny will have to stay over.

But its still a lot of travel. No family locally but have some good friends who  I can call on in a pinch. [/quote]

When we were considering this we were going to go the au pair route, but legally they can't work more than X hours in a row, so that didn't solve our problem of when we would both be traveling. [/quote]

If you keep the good nanny, and kids are in school or camp, it could work.

Kids come home from school at 3:30, nanny is there 8 hours so 3 - 11, takes kids to after school activities, serves dinner, oversees homework, gets kids bathed and in bed.  Au Pair comes on at 10:30, and is there in the morning to wake kids up, get them to school, as long as drop off is by 8:30 it's fine.  No one even needs overtime

On weeks when dad doesn't travel, shift au pair hours to the weekend, or for a date night, or double on the weekdays once in a while so that Kid A doesn't get dragged to Kid B's soccer practice and vice versa.

It's not what I'd do.  I'm happier with a moderate income, less challenge at work, and seeing my kid every day,  but I can see it working.  Kids can grow up OK in lots of different families.[/quote]

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