Sunday, February 22, 2009

Meet the Nanny

When I posted our ad on craigslist for a nanny, we got over 50 responses.  When we posted our ad on a nanny-finding website, we got another 36 inquiries.  We narrowed down those massive numbers to 25 potentials and then picked 5 to interview.  Only one of the five showed up.  

So, we looked through our lists again, adding in the new requests that had come in and picked 5 more to interview.  All 5 of them showed.  We've interviewed people all weekend, but today we finally chose our nanny for Abigail.  

So, for all you curious people - Her name is Nadina.  She is 24 and moved here from Morocco last year when she was married.  She is friendly, energetic, and intelligent.  She is fluent in English, French and Arabic.  She currently nannies part time for another family who had nothing but praises to sing about her (and who also have an infant).  She also works part-time at Harvard doing research on building a kind of online information database about Islam.  Hmm, what else?  Oh, she met her husband while he was teaching English in Morocco.  He's Jewish and she's Muslim - and they have quite the story of how they met.  I believe she has a degree in chemical engineering and is considering going back to school next fall.  

So, that's Nadina, the nanny.  

I'm very happy with her and am excited to have somebody I feel good about watching Abs.  We also have a short list of relief sitters that are also well qualified and caring individuals.  :)
Thanks for all the well wishes on our search!  

5 comments:

hannah said...

pretty sure i'm smarter for having just read her bio alone.

abs is going to be one of those kids that finishes college at the ripe old age of 12...and is a brain surgeon by 18.

between the genius nanny and her genetics...it's all going to be a cake walk.

Bobbi Sharp said...

Congrats & good luck, you'll let us know when Abs is bi-lingual right?

Lauren McKnight said...

Wow what a wonderful find! Congrats and good luck!

jennybee said...

I think I need her to come take care of me.

Anonymous said...

I bet she is photogenic, too. I'd like to see her with Abigail. I'm happy for you. By the way, how is Kyle tonight?

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