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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel very fortunate that my daughter has a great nanny.  She is well-educated, knows a great deal about childhood development, is kind, loving and funny with the baby, is never late and is kind of amazing about thinking up solutions to problems/issues we have encountered over the last year.  She never seems to be in a bad mood and our child loves her.  She does all child-related duties - including shopping for ingredients to make homemade baby food and all kitchen clean up, baby's laundry and ironing, cleaning up baby's room and playroom, leaving the house exactly as she found it.

And I mean, she leaves the house exactly as she found it.  If I leave a coffee cup on the table that is where it is when I come home.  I think she would step over any article of clothing DH or I may have dropped before she'd pick it up (never actually happened but you get the picture).  Any time we leave a few dishes in the sink, she puts them to the side and washes only the baby's dishes, pot and pans, bottles, etc.  She hand washes everything, dries and puts the dishes away and has never opened our dishwasher.  For herself, she brings her own lunch and never even uses a drinking glass in our house.

While we agreed that her only duties were to be child-related, it sometimes bugs me that she won't move my used coffee cup from the table to the sink or stick in a load of laundry for DH and I that is sitting in the basket next to the washer when she is done with the baby's laundry.

Please know that I have no intention of firing her and do thank my lucky stars that we found her.  But am I wrong to feel bugged?   [/quote]

Yes, you're wrong to feel bugged.

Next time, write a contract that explicitly states what you expect her to do.  In my case, I include laundry, kitchen, floors, and more.  And I'm fair, reasonable, and know what it takes to be a full-time caregiver and domestic manager (because I did it myself when I was a SAHM).

Clarity, explicit contracts, communication, demonstration.  You can find what you're looking for, but don't pile it on after the fact. Be up front.[/quote]

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