P31: Day Twenty-Eight

A day in the life.... of being a live-in nanny for my sister!

I am half way through my 3 weeks of nanny life before I fully move out on my own into this big, bad world. Living with my sister, Stephanie, her boyfriend (Caleb, who travels for work, and has only been home a few hours out of the last 2 weeks) and my 2 nephews (Nathan, 11, and Kaleb, 8) has been interesting and honestly has been a great experience so far! In fact my schedule is balancing out and becoming normal again (and with my need for structure and consistency it's an added bonus). Basically, I wake up at 6:00 in the morning, but just lay there and listen to my sister and Nathan argue until he leaves for school at 6:55; then she leaves for work at 7:30. When 8:00 rolls around it's time for Kaleb to get up, shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, (I pack his lunch, drink coffee, and read the paper) and he's out the door by 8:50! Then I have the house to myself until around 3 when the craziness picks up again.

During the day I clean, do laundry, plan dinner, or sometimes explore the neighborhood but most of the time I troll the Tumblr realms and stay updated on my favorite blogs! After school it's homework, getting ready for football (both kids play) cooking dinner and after practice or games it's showers, bed and then it all starts again! Learning to fairly judge and discipline is not easy, but most days are not too difficult. I'm excited to finish this out, and maybe this will get me some experience so that I can get an official--and paid--nanny position. I think  I really might be interested in pursuing this while working to pay off my student loan and figure out what I want to do with life.

beauty quote of the day:

you'll make all the fashion statements, just by dressing up your mind. (jason mraz: the beauty in ugly)