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copteacher
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 Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:07 Post subject: Robin and I are getting an Au Pair
To watch JJ and Hannah. We are not happy with the baby sitter watching them now and really need more flexibility. We checked out Au Pairs and found that really they are only a little bit more than full time day care for two kids. (JJ and Hannah) Abby is still watched by the nurses.
We should likely have the Au Pair in about 2 months.
She is here for a year, works 45 hours a week, makes 139.05 salary per week. She gets two weeks vacation a year and has to take 6 college credits while here. We really looked into this and seems great.
Anyone else ever have an Au Pair?
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:15 Post subject:
Call me stupid but how are you only paying her $3.08/hr.?
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copteacher
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:16 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Call me stupid but how are you only paying her $3.08/hr.? |
It is run by the U.S. State dept. It is more a cultural exchange program as they are here to experience U.S. culture and learn better English
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:18 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | Call me stupid but how are you only paying her $3.08/hr.? |
It is run by the U.S. State dept. It is more a cultural exchange program as they are here to experience U.S. culture and learn better English |
Looks like they picked the wrong family. 
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:20 Post subject:
What country is she (?) from?
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:22 Post subject:
I'll be very interested in knowing how this turns out. My wife and I have discussed in home child care solutions. If it was financially viable for us, I think we'd do it. Keep us posted!
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:37 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | rtpd113 wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | Call me stupid but how are you only paying her $3.08/hr.? |
It is run by the U.S. State dept. It is more a cultural exchange program as they are here to experience U.S. culture and learn better English |
Looks like they picked the wrong family. |
 HAHA!!!!!! THANKS, PURP! I NEEDED THAT ONE!!!
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omega lambda
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:42 Post subject:
I didn't have an Au Pair, but I had a live-in housekeeper for two years. It was wonderful. I had an older woman though, actually closer to my age now.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:43 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | | I had an older woman though, actually closer to my age now. |
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omega lambda
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:49 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | | I had an older woman though, actually closer to my age now. |
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heh heh Yuk it up, boss! 
I meant, I was much younger then, and she was my age now, and Au Pairs are typically college age. Oy!
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:50 Post subject:
Gregcam will post pix of said au pair as soon as she arrives.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:52 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | | heh heh Yuk it up, boss! |
I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at what you used to consider old. When I'm your age in just a few short years, I don't think I'll be old.
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airehead
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:52 Post subject:
So does he get to pick the nationality? Is she Swedish and 18 y/o?
Sounds like a deal to me...
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omega lambda
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 15:58 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | | heh heh Yuk it up, boss! |
I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at what you used to consider old. When I'm your age in just a few short years, I don't think I'll be old. |
I know you weren't laughing at me, but in retrospect, the way I worded that was pretty funny. I will never be old. Aged maybe, but never old!
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copteacher
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 17:19 Post subject:
We could pick what country. I said anywhere in Europe but France because I would end up in arguments over their politics.
Knowing my luck I will get hot young German chick. Guys on my squad are lining up to "help" her get oriented to the states.
We had a choice of not only country but either male or female. We felt much better about female with all of the women nurses that we have and the young age of the kids.
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