Dear Lawyermommy,
I most certainly understand your predicament as I was in a similar one about 18+ months ago. We had a terrible nanny (that was highly recommended by "friends") who inter alia lied constantly). I interviewed about 80 nannies and finally settled on Deidre after having had this one terrible experience. I fired the original nanny after hiring Deidre. After that decision, life became a lot easier and on the home front stressfree. We have a 2 year old daughter who was a premie. She was born 7 weeks early and has a speech delay. Until we moved in May to Hong Kong, she was in the Early Intervention program and received speech therapy at home twice a week. I work full time and my husband used to travel to Asia all the time for 4 to 6 week trips. Deirde was essentially responsible for anything to do with Izzie -- playing with her, stimulating her verbalization, taking her to classes, taking care of her room, do her laundry, cook her food and feed her. Deidre is wonderful! and I wish we had been able to take her with us to Hong Kong. She is creative, loving, loyal, trustworthy and our daughter loves her. With Deidre I never felt guilty leaving in the morning as I knew that Izzie was in lovng and safe hands.
Please let me know if you are interested in talking re Deidre. I am presently in Hong Kong and there is a 12 hours time difference, Perhaps we can find a mutually convenient time in the upcoming week (assuming you are interested). Please email me at
dbaeuerle@hotmail.com. FYI we lived on the UES.
best regards
Dagmar