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!