Thought my DCUM ladies might enjoy this:
We're a foreign service family posted overseas. Labor is very cheap here, and it's very easy to afford full-time help ($400/month on average, I pay a little more). So I do have full-time help - she mostly does the housework and dishes and chopping but occasionally watches the kids. Other people have more "nanny intensive" help. Anyway, a SAHM with full-time help is pretty standard here.
So who do *we* gossip about? The SAHM down the street from me who has TWO nannies, plus a weekend nanny so she's never without help for her two kids. I've literally never seen her take her kids to the park. Luckily the main nanny is delightful, and anyway it's none of my damn business.
Thought you'd get a kick out of it. Back to our regular co-sleeping / babywearing / SAHM / breastfeeding debates.
