Any other nannies spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with their employers?

[Anonymous]

My employers and I only see each other due to covid. We’re extremely cautious. So I will be spending Thanksgiving with them as well as Christmas.

I am so grateful we all love each other and get along so well or this would be a truly miserable holiday season. I miss my friends and my family but with a two-year-old and newborn, we cannot be too careful.

[Anonymous]

You’re very lucky. They’re very lucky.

[Anonymous]

We are moving cross country over thanksgiving. One set of grandparents has been quarantined for a month so that they would feel safe to stop for a few days. I’m driving the other car, and I’ll see my family very briefly from 6 feet away, outside, while masked; it gives me a great reason to skip my step-mom’s awful greasy food and my sister’s every allergy-avoidant extremely healthy and tasteless sides.

Over Christmas, we will be home, quarantining. Once we move, the only exposure we will have is a once per week housekeeper, but we won’t re-enter the house until an hour after she leaves.

I’m quite happy with the set-up, as are they.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are moving cross country over thanksgiving. One set of grandparents has been quarantined for a month so that they would feel safe to stop for a few days. I’m driving the other car, and I’ll see my family very briefly from 6 feet away, outside, while masked; it gives me a great reason to skip my step-mom’s awful greasy food and my sister’s every allergy-avoidant extremely healthy and tasteless sides.

Over Christmas, we will be home, quarantining. Once we move, the only exposure we will have is a once per week housekeeper, but we won’t re-enter the house until an hour after she leaves.

I’m quite happy with the set-up, as are they.

You’re a nanny who is moving across country with your employers?

[Anonymous]

Hell No!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My employers and I only see each other due to covid. We’re extremely cautious. So I will be spending Thanksgiving with them as well as Christmas.

I am so grateful we all love each other and get along so well or this would be a truly miserable holiday season. I miss my friends and my family but with a two-year-old and newborn, we cannot be too careful.

I hope they are paying you a $1000 more a month because this is the only way I would love like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are moving cross country over thanksgiving. One set of grandparents has been quarantined for a month so that they would feel safe to stop for a few days. I’m driving the other car, and I’ll see my family very briefly from 6 feet away, outside, while masked; it gives me a great reason to skip my step-mom’s awful greasy food and my sister’s every allergy-avoidant extremely healthy and tasteless sides.

Over Christmas, we will be home, quarantining. Once we move, the only exposure we will have is a once per week housekeeper, but we won’t re-enter the house until an hour after she leaves.

I’m quite happy with the set-up, as are they.

You’re a nanny who is moving across country with your employers?

Live-in, by choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers and I only see each other due to covid. We’re extremely cautious. So I will be spending Thanksgiving with them as well as Christmas.

I am so grateful we all love each other and get along so well or this would be a truly miserable holiday season. I miss my friends and my family but with a two-year-old and newborn, we cannot be too careful.

I hope they are paying you a $1000 more a month because this is the only way I would love like this.

I make ~23/hour, as a live-in. I have my own suite, and my only restriction for board is that I’m only allowed to eat healthy food in front of the kids (I believe kids learn from adult models, so I would do that anyway).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers and I only see each other due to covid. We’re extremely cautious. So I will be spending Thanksgiving with them as well as Christmas.

I am so grateful we all love each other and get along so well or this would be a truly miserable holiday season. I miss my friends and my family but with a two-year-old and newborn, we cannot be too careful.

I hope they are paying you a $1000 more a month because this is the only way I would love like this.

OP here. I earn $32 an hour and love the kids. I would do social isolation regardless of salary however just to protect them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers and I only see each other due to covid. We’re extremely cautious. So I will be spending Thanksgiving with them as well as Christmas.

I am so grateful we all love each other and get along so well or this would be a truly miserable holiday season. I miss my friends and my family but with a two-year-old and newborn, we cannot be too careful.

I hope they are paying you a $1000 more a month because this is the only way I would love like this.

OP here. I earn $32 an hour and love the kids. I would do social isolation regardless of salary however just to protect them.

Good that they pay you a decent rate for the two children.

[Anonymous]

I wish I could spend it with a former family but not this year.

[Anonymous]

No. And I won’t be seeing my parents now because my bosses decided to have 6 family members coming to visit. There are college students that are flying. So much for our agreement to be careful

Enjoy your holiday. It’s wonderful that you have a great relationship with your employers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. And I won’t be seeing my parents now because my bosses decided to have 6 family members coming to visit. There are college students that are flying. So much for our agreement to be careful

Enjoy your holiday. It’s wonderful that you have a great relationship with your employers.

Your employers suck. There has never been a better time to find a new position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. And I won’t be seeing my parents now because my bosses decided to have 6 family members coming to visit. There are college students that are flying. So much for our agreement to be careful

Enjoy your holiday. It’s wonderful that you have a great relationship with your employers.

If the family members haven't arrived yet, you tell your employers that you will not be there when they arrive and will come back when your employers have quarantined thereafter and had negative Covid tests. If they balk, tell them you will sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell No!!!

+1

Spent it with my husband and immediate family.