I’m 37 years old, standing in my kitchen being dumped and I\u2019m just as emotional now as I was at 16. I feel a wave of heat come over me almost like I might pass out. I can’t believe this is happening even though I feared it was coming for months.<\/p>\n
I immediately become the victim. “I’ll be fine” I say, knowing it’s not true. “It’s for the best” I lie, deep down wanting to scream \u201cBut I love you, you can’t go!\u201d<\/p>\n
Our nanny just broke up with us.<\/strong><\/p>\n I can’t get back out there. The thought of searching the web, awkward first meetings, and the careful dance of letting them go if it doesn’t work out — it\u2019s all so dreadful to me.<\/p>\n Who ever thought our nanny\u2019s resignation would hurt more than a high school breakup? Finding a new nanny is far worse than any dating scene I’ve ever been a part of. Yet here I am, after a year of the most wonderful courtship that caused me, my husband and our two year-old daughter to fall head over heels in love, is over.<\/p>\n Our amazing nanny was unattainable from the start. She let us know from the beginning that she always wanted to be a teacher. And, like any unattainable love, we were lucky to have what we did for one amazing year.<\/p>\n My daughter will be heartbroken, which is without a doubt the saddest part to me. Cupcakes for birthdays, crafts each week, she even made a mother’s day gift for my mother-in-law. No one can top that — not even the most elite preschool!<\/p>\n There will be tears and heartache and a mad frenzy to replace her (three weeks and three days to be exact). Can I start a new relationship that fast? I guess am going to find out.<\/p>\n We’ve consistently used care.com<\/a> or sittercity.com<\/a>, but I’m wondering if there are any other hidden gems out there I’m missing. Thanks for your advice and support!<\/p>\n Desperately Seeking Super Nanny.<\/p>\n Image credit (cc): http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaderli\/2265098258\/<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m 37 years old, standing in my kitchen being dumped and I\u2019m just as emotional now as I was at 16. I feel a wave of heat come over me almost like I might pass out. I can’t believe this is happening even though I feared it was coming for months. I immediately become the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-working-parents","tag-nanny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}