Mothering Mommy

THE CHILD CARE DEBATE OMG! It's positive you are going to have a baby. Your heart is racing, your face hurts from smiling so hard and you get those familiar butterflies of excitement in your stomach. Then your thought process begins, and sometime during this moment you think eventually I am going to need a nanny, no maybe daycare wait no I'm quitting my job. WAIT! I am a mom, who had been a nanny for years. I switched careers and became a stay at home mom/author, then as of a month ago I put my daughter into daycare. Yes I have experienced it from every angle, so let me give you a little insight. THINKING OF A NANNY The choice to get a nanny is a big one and one of the most personal relationships you could ever have. To be clear a nanny is not a babysitter. A babysitter ensures your little one is safe, and entertained in your absence, a nanny ensures not only your little one's safety and entertainment, but they also see after the entire wellbeing of your little one. ...

So this week’s post got sidelined after my experience this weekend. It would have not been in my nature to not share this experience with all of you. So my apologize for the late post but this is worth it. This weekend was full of blessings, with my daughter turning 2 and Mother’s Day all wrapped up in one, I couldn’t have asked for anything better. We celebrated by going to the zoo, and it was awesome!! We were lucky enough to see all the animals and witness feeding time. Honestly, my kids spent the entire day smiling. Now to this week’s entry. When you visit a public, family oriented place like the zoo, you witness first hand the differences and similarities in how we parent. Bringing together, strangers with a common interest, for brief random reassurances. While enjoying the attractions, I saw this family, with a reasonable gap in ages between their two kids, which caught my attention seeing that my kids are 12 years apart. The little one didn’t want to do what the bigger one ...