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[quote=Anonymous]We have now been through three live in nannies in six months and I am almost feeling as if I have PTSD from the whole situation.

Nanny #1: Summer nanny who was temporary from the get go (to give us an idea of whether the live in situation would be a good fit for us, before we got into a long term contract). She was fabulous. Loved her. She did everything we asked, followed directions perfectly, plus she was a really nice person and we actually got along really well.. super friendly. I even sort of missed her when she would go away for the weekend. She spent a good amount of time at her boyfriend's house, especially on weekends.. had lots of friends in the area as well and saw them frequently too.

Nanny #2: Despite the fact that she was living with us, was never on time EVER. Would show up hours late after going out shopping when she was supposed to be on duty, with no explanation. We had to part ways very quickly and we chalked it up to her young age and a lack of professionalism.

Nanny #3: Was seemingly great with our daughter, but a little eccentric. It seemed like she was always here on her off hours and she sort of took over different common areas of the house, like the playroom turned into her personal space. (She had a lot of personal space to begin with!). Then we found out that she had been drinking all of our alcohol (which was obviously not allowed per the contract- and when I say all, I mean our liquor cabinet was completely emptied, it just took us a while to notice because we don't drink a lot) and stealing prescription drugs from us. Obviously we had to let her go immediately.

After the trainwreck that was Nanny #3, it feels so nice to be able to come home with no one here and not have to worry about how she would leave her crap everywhere and just ALWAYS. BE. HERE. I am trying to now figure out if she annoyed me so much because she was crazy, or if I would be annoyed by any live in nanny. Maybe the reason I liked the first one so much was because she wasn't around all that much? Is it typical for most live ins to spend all saturday and sunday hanging around common areas of the house? I guess I'm tryng to figure out if #1 was the exception rather than the norm, or if I just had a round of shitty luck with the second two.

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