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[quote=Anonymous]We have a PT nanny who has been with us for 5 months that we found through an agency.  It's a little complicated how it works but basically most weeks we have her 3 days a week and if she wants she can fill her other days with babysitting jobs through the agency.  If we cancel a day she can get another job from the agency or if she can't work a certain day or gets sick the agency will find us someone else.

She's a fantastic nanny.  She's amazing with the kids.  They love her and she loves them and she has become part of our family.  She's always been very reliable and trustworthy.  In the last month though she has cancelled at the last minute 3 times.  She has had a lot going on with family things and once she had the flu.  Every time she cancelled I always told her not to worry about it, just take care of whatever was going on and we would find someone to fill in for her.  It's supposed to be her job to call the agency if she has to cancel but I've even done it for her because she had so much going on.

Normally she doesn't work on Mondays but I asked her last week if she could work then because I have an appointment in the morning and I can't bring the kids.  She said she could and we confirmed it on Friday.  She texted me just now that she couldn't work tomorrow because of something family related.  It's important but not an emergency.  Because it's Sunday night it took a while to reach someone at the agency.  So far they have always been able to find a replacement for me at the last minute but I know they can't always so I was worried when we couldn't reach anyone.  I told the nanny I understood what she had going on and didn't want her to have to come tomorrow but I wasn't sure what to do because of the appointment I can't miss.  She texted back and said she'd do what she could if we couldn't reach the agency.  I finally heard from the agency that they have a replacement for tomorrow.  So basically the end result is fine for tomorrow but when I texted our current nanny to tell her it is all worked out she didn't text me back.

I'm feeling a little annoyed but I have A LOT of other stressors right now and this just added to it so I don't know if I'm over reacting.  I am annoyed that she cancelled even though I do kind of understand the reason but since it's not an emergency I feel like she probably could have come given how many times she has cancelled recently.  I'm also annoyed that she hasn't said, "thank you for understanding and working it out" even once.

Basically I just want to know if I am overreacting because of the stress I'm going through otherwise or if I should be legitimately annoyed and concerned.  To be fair, the doctor appointment I have tomorrow is because we are currently going through IVF which the nanny doesn't know.  It is certainly adding to my stress but since we haven't told anyone we are doing IVF right now she doesn't know just how important this appointment is tomorrow.  But then on the other hand my saying it was something I can't miss should be enough.[/quote]

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