Yaya Dilemma

I chatted with Howell almost the whole day today and our major topic of conversation was my complains about being yaya less. LOL. At first I liked the setup because it is less stressful, but now that Howell is away and my tummy is so big already, I realized that we really need to get a yaya.

I contacted an agency referred to me by an officemate and they have an available nanny to give to me. The problem is my parents don’t like the idea of getting a nanny from an agency as according to them, we never really can verify the records of the person. Especially they just heard from the news about a nanny who kidnapped the kids that she is taking care of.

But we have been waiting for more than a month now for referral from our friends but up to now, we are still nanny less. I am giving my parents until Monday to look for a nanny and if they still can’t find one, I will get the nanny from the agency. For our security if ever we get a nanny from an agency, we can just install convex mirror all around our house, interview the nanny that we will be getting and ask for police clearance and NBI clearance to check that she doesn’t have any criminal records, and I will ask my mom to be at our house even if I have a nanny already to monitor the nanny.

I will be giving birth soon and we plan to get another nanny before I give birth. Hopefully, we will find a reliable nanny for Bela soon and then our next project is to go look for another nanny for our baby boy.

Yaya Stories Again

I brought home a laptop today so I can work at home during the weekend (I love the Jack Georges’ computer case of the laptop by the way and how I wish I have this for my laptop too. The leather is really of high quality and good craftsmanship.) You see I have been nanny less for more than a month now. (I stopped looking for one as I already gave up in finding the best nanny who will not make my head ache and will really take good care of Bela.) So during weekends, I have to take care of Bela which means I can’t work during the day since I have no PC at our sala. So I decided to bring a laptop home so I can work while I look after Bela and be productive during the day.

But since Howell is away, I really realized that it is difficult with out a nanny. Imagine, my tummy is so big already and I still have to be the one to give Bela a bath, wash her at night before going to bed, prepare her stuff, etc. I am not complaining as this gives me a good bonding time with my daughter but sometimes after a long day at the office I just want to take a rest as soon as I reached home. And doing this is even more difficult now that I am already 7 months pregnant and my tummy is too big already that I am really having a hard time moving and doing the things that I can normally do without problems when I was not pregnant.

So now I am back looking for a nanny. I am really hoping and praying that I will find one before I give birth.

Yaya got lost

Last week when we did our grocery in SM, we asked yaya to wait for us at the Bingo Center so we don’t have to bring our grocery item at the 3/F as we need to buy Bela’s toothpaste there. It only took us a maximum of 20 minutes to buy the toothpaste and so we were surprised when we went back to the Bingo Center at the ground floor and we didn’t find yaya there.

We went around SM for two hours and we even reported it to the Security of SM and they helped us look for yaya. It was already 9 PM and Bela was getting cranky already and we haven’t eaten our dinner yet so we decided that we will go home first so Howell can drop us at our house and eat dinner before he goes back looking for yaya again. We also left our contact number at the Security of SM so they can call us in case they find our yaya.

At around 9:30 PM, we received a call from SM’s Security officer to report to us that they already found our yaya. So Howell went back immediately to pick her up and we learned that she got lost looking for the Bingo Center.

Good thing Bela is with us and we didn’t leave her with our yaya. There was really never a time when we leave her alone with our nanny especially if we are out but it really gave me a wake up call that we should never ever leave her with our nanny. I am already imaging myself going crazy if ever Bela will get lost with our yaya.

We are thankful that nothing really bad happened to our yaya and I am also thankful that at least this incident gave us a good lesson that we should never trust our kids with our nanny especially if we are out.