Cheery Nanny is back. Little T remembers her from a year ago. He kept hugging her. Special K was excited too ( Read more... )

Little T's platelets were 100, so slightly up from last week. He weighed 10.5kg. We're weaning him a bit more off the steroids. We're hoping that Little T will not need chemo (please!), but we're not out of the woods yet. We need his numbers to continue this slow upwards trend despite cutting back on steroids. So far so good ( Read more... )

Our current nanny is leaving on Wednesday, which is very sad. She's moving too far away to commute. We'll miss her. She says she'll come back and visit. I didn't want to post anything earlier for fear of jinxing it, but she referred us to two other nannies. One was her cousin who wasn't a good match, but the other nanny seems like a great match ( Read more... )

C woke me up this morning and said "I have very bad news." My heart raced and I imagined something horrible must have happened to Little T. It was bad news. Our nanny is moving to Concord. Too far away to commute to us, so we need to find another nanny. Much sadness. It fills me with anxiety. Before our current nanny, we had a string of ( Read more... )

We had a very hard time finding a nanny. And we almost lost our current nanny. Click on the nanny tags for the full saga ( Read more... )

I wrote this in response to Mary Anne's journal entry.
My life is filled with lots of things to do and unfortunately many of them are unpleasant and draining. I can't say I'm always sanguine, but I am coping better than I feared.

Here's what helps me:

1. Delegate, delegate, delegate. As my friend Jenny says, "these are your rainiest days, so ( Read more... )

Our nanny is staying!! We offered her an extra $2/hour.

We've had a really hard time keeping a good nanny. When I tell friends my nanny stories, they say we've had really bad luck ( Read more... )