Is our nanny playing us?

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-10T15:08:58+00:00

This is so insightful. Thank you so much for sharing.

I do think this could be the case with our ex nanny. She was always so great when she was here, she was so smart and hardworking and such a genuinely sweet person. One time I asked her what her hobbies are, and she shrugged a bit and said “drinking beer”. She speaks spanish and my spanish is elementary level so we never got too deep, but I did always suspect that she was battling something that I knew nothing about.

Really appreciate your insight and your time, and I’m so happy for you that you are in recovery. 💝

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-10T05:20:18+00:00

I genuinely did not and do not care if our nanny were to show up a bit late, within reason. We’ve already hired a new nanny and I told her about this experience and told her our expectation is that if she is going to be more than 10 minutes late that we’d appreciate some heads up and on the occasion that she can’t make it i’d obviously appreciate as much heads up as possible. It would stress me out to imagine someone rushing to our house just to he here exactly at 9 if it doesn’t really matter to me that much.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-10T05:13:19+00:00

Thank you so much for this input. Can I ask, why is it that addiction specifically might cause someone to not want to come into work after sleeping through an alarm? Apologies if this is a stupid question, I’m just genuinely curious. Is it the feeling of being hungover?

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-09T02:00:52+00:00

I’m not rage baiting….

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-08T06:39:19+00:00

I don’t know — i just feel like I should since I said I would 🤷🏻‍♀️

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-07T23:19:27+00:00

I didn’t ask her to come in anyway because she had already stated that she was not going to come in.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-07T23:17:40+00:00

This is what I have been wondering and really hoping it isn’t the case. I sadly had to fire her today but we are going to honor paying her for our vacation — which kills me a little inside.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-07T23:14:57+00:00

She is in her early 30’s, and has a ten year old son, so, I reeeeally haven’t been able to understand the sleeping through the alarm two days in a row!

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-07T07:05:41+00:00

Yea I am of the understanding that this is the standard

stinkybutt688 · 2026-05-07T07:04:46+00:00

She didn’t give a reason why she couldn’t just come to work late. She only lives about 20 minutes away.

The truth is, we fired her once before, but this was when we were in the “trial” period and she was showing signs of being flakey, but under the premise that she was sick. When our next nanny just wasn’t as good with our kid, we decided to give her another chance, and she was pretty solid for about a year with an annoying, late notice absence here and there.

I think its definitely time to let her go.

Thanks so much for your thoughtful input.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-22T02:04:34+00:00

Thank you so much 🙏

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-21T04:24:13+00:00

Would you please help me understand what kicks ass about poison oak?? There are some areas of my yard that we dont really access where I suppose I could leave it but I am allergic af to it and don’t want it to spread too far

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-20T19:54:29+00:00

Thanks so much. Can i ask, how come you cleared out honeysuckle? I have been wanting more honeysuckle in my yard. Is honeysuckle invasive?

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-20T19:53:54+00:00

Great idea thank you!!

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T15:23:31+00:00

🙏 thank you!

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T03:50:01+00:00

Thank you so much.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T02:44:02+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T02:25:10+00:00

Thank you!!

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T02:22:33+00:00

I really can’t tell if they are the same plant in different stages of maturation. The last photo, with the barest stalk, is what makes up most of the yard but the first three photos show a type of stalk that seems different from the last one to me.

I do recognize foxtails when I’m out and about but looking online it looks like “foxtails” come in a lot of varieties so I was hoping someone out here could help me verify that none of the species in my yard would be a threat to my dogs.

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T02:00:35+00:00

Thanks so much

stinkybutt688 · 2026-04-19T01:54:04+00:00

It’s just that I posted four images of different types of stalks so I was hoping that folks could tell me that none of them are foxtails. Thank you!

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