Her name is Jackie...

( not a great picture)

WE HAVE A NANNY!!!!!

As you can imagine I am relieved, we signed the work agreement with the nanny last night. Her name is Jackie (as stated previously) and she is very sweet. She starts Monday.

She is real quiet and that is one thing we were worried about with her originally but she has a lot of experience so I am sure she will be fine. She seems real excited too. She is 24 years old and is getting married next month. She will be taking off a week for her honeymoon so that is when I am going to Oregon.

She seems pretty strict about her religion. She is Apostolic, haven't heard of it, neither have I. It is like Pentecostal, she said, but more for the Spanish. I don't mean to sound like she is overbearing, because she never brought it up, but after she showed up four times with a skirt on, we started asking questions. She, as you can see wears only skirts and her hair is REALLY long. She wore it up last night, usually it has been down. She doesn't drink, smoke, go to movies or even dance. The not dancing freaks me out a little, because I love music and to dance and I think that is important, but maybe I am just being too paranoid or picky or something. She is nearly perfect and I guess I am just getting nervous because of the huge change and commitment this is.

The boys' last day at daycare is tomorrow and I know I am going to be emotional. They love it there and Kristen (the helper and our babysitter) loves them so much and Ean loves her a lot. I totally trust and am comfortable with them and if it weren't for the logistics they would be staying there. I keep telling myself that I am doing this for the wrong reasons (money and time) but then have to catch myself and remember how many working parents would love to be able to hire a nanny. I know this is better for them, but I feel horrible.

I am making cupcakes for tomorrow and Kristen is going to babysit on Saturday night. It is going to be unbelievable on Monday to leave home and be to work in literally 3 minutes, instead of an hour. The boys are going to have one person devoting all of her time and energy to them instead of 8-14 other kids and will be able to go on outings and to the park etc. Also, once they get in a routine I am going to put Ean in a couple of extra things that him and I can do together, probably gymnastics and dance. Like I said I KNOW this is the right decision, just right now the unknown future and change is horrible.

I am excited, can you tell?

Also, Ean got into his first MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT this week. See the below picture. He, after being told not to, decide to climb onto Daddy's HOT bike. Jim had just rode it home from work. Thank God it was not hotter from a long ride AND it was just his hand because it could have been a lot worse. Ean cried for over and hour, and ended up sleeping with us half the night. It is healing up fine and by the morning it looked a lot worse than it felt.

BTW- Don't talk crap about my Mexican Nanny! --- Joke, just kidding, hahaha, put down the stakes and daggers.