After being gone for four days, I swept the kitchen floor this morning to get the dog hairs. As I swept, I thought of this incident three decades ago. My husband’s work friend from San Diego (we were in Northern CA) came to visit with his wife and two sons. That made for four little… Continue reading The Bad Housekeeper and the House Guests
Category: babysitters
The Daycare Quandary
When my kids were young, I had a hard time finding sitters for them in my affluent bedroom community near San Francisco. The local kids didn’t need the money, and my then-husband wouldn’t spring for a nanny. Not that I wanted one. I wanted to raise my own kids. Every now and then, it was… Continue reading The Daycare Quandary
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