Wild hair

You know when you get to feeling like your world is falling apart and you think that there is no way you can do all that you have to do? Well I was having a lot of those days when I found out I was pregnant again for the 3rd time in three years. My business has grown and I am busier than ever and then I found out I was pregnant again. So after many days of trying to figure out what to do Aaron asked me if I wanted a live-in Nanny. At first I thought "heck ya" then I would think about how much it would cost and all the other things that go with it. We talked for a while about it and then thought we'd just look into it a bit more. We filled out a profile on an Au pair website and soon the inquiries started coming in. We would e-mail the ones we liked and from there we could chat and ask questions. Aaron came across one from Spain who was with a family in Miami and was almost done with them. We chatted with her for a while and liked what we heard. We exchanged photos and then said it would be neat to meet her before she went back to Spain. We asked her what tickets would cost. The next day when we were chatting we asked if she found out how much tickets from Miami to Idaho would cost. She said that she did and that she would be here on the 16th of November.!!!!! Wha... Whoa.... Okay. So when we went to Vegas to get another van for my business we swung up through Salt Lake and picked her up at the airport. We have her until December 19th and then she will go home to Barcelona, Spain. If we all decide it is a good fit for us then she can come back.

I don't know if it is the best fit for us though. She is pretty homesick for her boyfriend and family and My kids think that having another person in the house to boss them around isn't such a great idea. I have a hard time communicating with her since English is her 3rd language. Aaron and Becky both speak Spanish so they get along fine with her (although Becky is a bit unsure about the arrangement) I get a little jealous when Aaron and her get to just hop on the horses and go for a ride or when Aaron invites her to go with him to move the animals. He used to invite me... oh, it probably has something to do with how HUGELY PREGNANT I AM!! Even if I did manage to climb up on the horse I wouldn't be able to move my achy body till after the baby got here. And I'm sure when a herd of animals came toward me they would fall down laughing when they saw me standing by the gate waving and hollering. So, I can see why Aaron doesn't invite me to go help lately. So if don't think that we will have a live in Nanny anytime soon but I had been neat to see how it would be. I think if we do go the live-in route then I will insist on one who speaks Fluent English not "pretty good" English. The tings we do like about this one is that she does teach the kids spanish and that she is a country girl at heart. She loves the animals and going outside. She keeps wishing for snow but my wish counters hers. I wish for only rain down here and snow in the mountains.

All in all it has been a good experience so far. It may get interesting when the new baby gets here though.