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So we didn't discuss this in advance because frankly I didn't think we needed to...I would never have expected her to submit her grocery bills to us after her year was over...seemed like common sense.

She was a lackluster Au Pair but did have a genuine love of the kids...I wanted to be kind and allow her to stay for the month if she wanted but the bill thing really pushed me to the edge.

My husband and I do not eat breakfast or lunch at home...pretty much ever.  Even on the weekends we tend to go out to lunch or go shopping for BBQ stuff as we feel like it...and almost always eat our weekend breakfast at the coffee shop at our gym.  The kids eat oatmeal or toast, Au Pair liked a specific kind of granola and for her lunches she had a specific bread she liked to have (non-sweet bread, she hated "American" bread) and lunchmeat that my kids wouldn't ever eat so it was really just hers.  We agreed early on that she could get herself $10-15 per week of her own groceries that we'd reimburse but I am shocked she thought this would continue.

We always have milk, eggs, our bread, peanut butter, tuna, fruit, pasta, etc. and she could always help herself to this stuff while she was staying, i wasn't counting the eggs.  She just took advantage and now I'm mad.
 
I did tell her no more reimbursement and she got annoyed.  And that made me more annoyed.  And then she's off on a trip to Vegas and we have another couple of weeks together.  It might be petty of me to allow this relationship to go so sour over a $12 grocery bill but for the love of God, it's about the principle!  I'm not ungenerous but I feel taken advantage of!![/quote]

Good for you! The way I see it the relation is kaputt anyway as I don't think you will be fool enough for her to come visit and stay with you, at this rate she might still hand you her foods receipt 2 years later. Also she spoiled it for other APs. It is about principle and when it is wrong it is wrong IMO.[/quote]

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