I began working as a nanny on January 10, 2011 for a family who has eight children. It is OK! I am only responsible for the youngest three. They are ages 13, 11 and 7 years old. They are home schooled and their family owns two businesses. They also eat really really REALLY healthy.
I start every day by arriving at their house before 8 am. Then I wake up the boys and Catie, the only girl. I start off by making breakfast and making sure they are getting ready for the day. I found that oatmeal is intense to make it can become like rubber if your not careful or like soup but a little agave and milk make it bearable. After breakfast, we have devotions reading one to two chapters a day out of the Bible. We started on the last of John, read though Acts and are now on Romans. After everyone reads out of the chapter we discuss what happened, what spoke to each of us and how we can apply it to our lives now. Then pray.
Then everyone breaks off into doing their school. Catie doesn't really need me at this point, she is a whiz! But I have to make sure the boys, Eddy and Mitch, don't kill each other over the desk, pencil sharpener, that sort of thing. When they do a test I grade it and when they finish a lesson I have to look over it to make sure they did it right and let them correct their mistakes. Then they do whatever chores they have for their day.
Usually I prepare lunch, clean up any remaining dishes, laundry, dust, sweep, vacuum and then a few times a week I do a deep cleaning task or organizing something.
Then at 5 pm I am technically done and wait for my wonderful husband to pick me up.
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