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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't do it, if it were me.

Too many variables and I wouldn't want a relative working for me.[/quote]

OP here -- just had dc#2 six days ago.  i am adjusting to the newborn's eating schedule and plan to defer any decision until after my 30-something cousin shows up in june sometime.

To the last 2 PPs--

Thanks for your input.  For some reason one of the PPs thought i was talking about a niece, and it's my 30 something cousin.  Also, we are not planning on hiring her.  It's more that i got the sense that she was hoping that we would offer to let her live with us rent free for a year.  I mentioned it to my DH after her call a few weeks ago, and he said he might be open to it if she could expose our DD to her native language.  My cousin also stressed how much she missed DD and after DC#2 was born, texted and said she was looking forward to meeting the baby as well.  To make it fair to my DH, since he'd be potentially be giving up our one spare bedroom, which was once his "man room" I said that she might be willing to help us out a bit in exchange for free room and board.  (For example, she might help us out by hanging out w/ our older DC and teaching her a bit of her native language or help us prep food for dinner (don't think she can cook) which she would also be eating with us (for free) around 5 hrs a week in exchange for living rent free in arlington and not paying for groceries or utilities).

I just wanted host families' advice on the lack of privacy w/ having another adult live in.  My DH thought it might be also be a trial run (losing privacy, having another adult living w/ us) if we ever decided to go the au pair route.

Also, to the other PP, my 30-something cousin does not drive (comes from large asian city), so she would not need to borrow our car.  Since we live in arlington, she'd be pretty close to whatever location in DC she'd be traveling to.[/quote]

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