First Solo Adventure...Accomplished!

So this weekend has been all about relaxing and getting my energy level back up to rock this next week with Princess and Diva! I started to get a cold last week and I think my body was pretty much worn down from the last month of my life, I needed a weekend for ME to get back to my crazy self!

Yesterday I slept in, hung out in my room for a while and just enjoyed not having any obligations since I had worked 14 days without a day off..this felt amazing! I lazed around for a while and then decided I would go find a movie theater so I ended up going to a small city near us. I found a big city center there with a huge building with a Movie Theater, Target, Barnes & Noble and a bunch of places like that.. THIS makes me happy because those three places can entertain me for hours! LOL!

After being kind of busy yesterday I decided that I would just hangout here today.. UM.. that happened until about 12pm and then I randomly decide, WHY NOT.. Lets go to NYC!

I knew it would be easier to just take the train into the city from where I live, but I decided to get the real first experience that I would drive! I found a parking garage near where I wanted to be, we won't even discuss how expensive it was! LOL! 

I got out of the car, looked up and I was instantly amazed! These buildings were HUGE!! All I had to go on was what I have seen in the movies and tv shows...and man oh man, they didn't do these building justice at all!!

People, Cars, Taxi, and more people.. were everywhere!!! After I realized that my GPS was in the car, I decide to just start walking, I'd eventually find it right?! So that's what I did!

I wanted to go to the World Trade Center Memorial, so I set up to find it..little did I know there was a huge process to get to go into the actual Memorial. I could see the Building but couldn't figure out how to do to the entrance of ground zero, so I figure the best person to ask is the nearest hotdog vendor! LOL! I was sooo right! I asked him and he started laughing at me...making me laugh too! He said "Turn around and look UP! There it is.. THAT is what you are walking towards!" He starts telling me which streets to turn down and to watch out for the crazy people when I get into the lines..then he adds "Ya wanna take a dog with you for the walk?" LOL! Uh.. No thank you kind Sir! :)

The weirdest thing was walking up to the line for the entrance is the WEIRDEST feeling..The city is soo loud and buzzing with energy and sounds, and then you get to ground zero and it's completely silent and eery..It was completely crazy.. I get to the lines for the entrance and soon find out I have to walk five more blocks to the 9/11 memorial preview site to get a Visitor's pass first..I walk up to get that and they say my ticket won't be ready until 5:30pm....oh damn! It was only 2:45, so that dashed my plans to actually go INTO the memorial.. but I just figured I'd do it next time..

So I found the visitor's center and went through all the videos, pictures hanging out on display of people, firemen's hats, and even saw some recovered wallets, wedding rings and drivers licenses..it was incredibly sad..

I keep walking and across the street I found St. Paul's Chapel.. the outside of it looks like an old cemetery and when I say OLD.. I mean, there is no names or dates on these tombstones and all the trees infront of the chapel have little white ribbons of hope tied onto each of the branches.. I guess when the families of the missing people on 9/11 didn't know what to do when their loved ones were missing, a bunch of them came to the chapel to pray, leave pictures and to find hope that they'd find them.. After the searches were called off and the people were announced dead, they started an altar of memories inside the chapel and also people started leaving letters, stories and things that reminded them of their loved ones in collections on the walls of the chapel..

Not being able to go into the actual memorial, the Chapel was incredible.. I sat on one of the chairs they had for pews and just felt the energy in there while probably close to 100 walked around looking at everything they had on display!

After I got done at the chapel, I walked along the water and was able to spot the Statue of Liberty! I was on the phone with my mom and all of a sudden I started squealing "oh my gosh! I see Lady Liberty!!!" lol! My mom was totally jealous!

I sat and watched the jet skis, boats and yachts go around in the water for a little bit before starting to head back to my car! I guess I didn't realize how long I had been walking because when I started back to my car I had a ways to go..but guess what, they have these amazing things called TAXIS going back you ever 1.5 seconds, so I hailed a cab to get back to my parking garage! LOL! Hey...I got tired!

So my last minute choice to go to the city ended up being an amazing adventure for a beautiful Sunday afternoon!!

I'm sure it will be more fun once I meet people to do things with, but I feel blessed that I'm completely comfortable with exploring on my own!!

I'm thinking next weekend will be Times Square!!

Seashells and Smiles :)

Whew!! THAT was quite a week we just had! I feel like I had no idea what to expect when I left that Saturday morning, little did I know...I REALLY had no idea what would happen!

Let me start off by saying I LOVE MY EMPLOYERS! I know that it takes a while to get to know eachother and in this setting where I already live with them, it's tricky sometimes but in short I really enjoy being around them on a regular basis and am completely excited for this next year of our lives!

So we got to Cape Cod on Saturday afternoon and were met by their extended family. There were 11 of us sharing this rental house for the week and we just hit the ground running! It was all very surreal. It was like, Hi Summer, nice to meet you...okay take care of my children, thanks! :)

No, the childcare part wasn't too bad at all. I actually had a melt down on the first full day there and ended up crying in front of the Grandma and my MB. I was frustrated because as a Nanny going on vacation with your employers it's always very tricky. You both need to sit down and dictate what the expectation of you will be during the stay. What you need to do, what hours you will be working..etc. But we had none of that. I think our situation is just so different because every single transition you could ever have with your employer...we had it ALL at the same time RIGHT when I started! lol! So because we didn't really know eachother yet, I was afraid they would think I was a slacker if I weren't following the kids around the house all day and they were afraid that I was feeling taken advantage of because of the other kids there...so once we actually sat down and had some much needed communication take place, it ended up being a really GREAT week!!!!

I saw things and did things that I've only imagined in my head and seen on movies! We spent days on the beach of the Atlantic ocean, helping the kids collect shells (including LOTS of horseshoe crabs which I had never seen before!) We actually went swimming in the ocean and then played in the sand for hours! We took a nature walk one morning and ended up in this little village with shops and restaurants and the kids randomly played mini golf, it was adorable! I LOVE cute little places like that and it reminded me of when I was little and we went to Seaside, OR or Longbeach, Wa BUT .. the people wore way different clothing and drove different cars! LOL! It really made me laugh that the people are so stereotypical in how they dress. Khakis, dress shirts, with a sweater tied around their shoulders with penny loafers.. CRACKED me up!!! Don't get me wrong, it's nice and all but I'm used to seeing guys in either shorts and a t-shirt, or wranglers and a flannel! It's just a little different!

So our time on the Cape was pretty awesome! We didn't get to sight see or do many activities because that's not what this trip was about. It was their family getting to spent a bunch of time together and relax as much as possible because of their hectic lives at home all year round! I believe that goal was accomplished, and I'm really excited that I feel like I know them alot better now than if I had just moved in and started our normal routine right off the bat. Plus, Princess, Diva and I know eachother a lot more now! :)

Oh.. before I end the CAPE part of this blog, I have to add that we were there when Taylor Swift picked out her compound next door to the Kennedy's and I'm extremely offended that I wasn't personally invited to her house warming party! lol.. Afterall, I DID have my first glass of Dom Perignon! :)

So after we left that Vacation we headed to the Berkshires for a couple days! That drive was sooo pretty! Of course I spent the little over 2 hours blasting my music and singing at the top of my lungs because that is my way of letting out all the energy I don't get to let out when I never have any alone time! Give me a car, my ipod and a couple hundred miles and I am good to go!!!

When we drive into the Berkshires, I totally had a fangirl moment because it was EXACTLY how the movies make it seem! A cute little village town, mountains of green everywhere and people with a perma grin walking out of HUGE houses, waving to their neighbors passing by! It was awesome!!

So we went there for a day to stay with My employer's Parents because our floors were being stained in the new house and we couldn't go home yet because it was still stinky! Nice place to HAVE to be in for a couple days! lol!

The house we stayed in was built in 1815 and it was incredible! The floors creaked, the doors squeaked and it still had most of the original features!!! I'm not gonna lie tho, at night when everyone was in bed...I totally heard voices talking outside my window, I'm pretty sure it was some old spirits or something! lol! Anyway, we had fun those two days. We went to the library in town, walked the flea market where Diva got a tye dyed dress that she's now in love with, and ate at a few of the restaurants in the little village of shops! Needless to say, I won't be upset when we go visit their family there again soon! :)

When we finally got home on tuesday night, I was BEAT! It has been such a crazy week and a half and I'm sure this is nothing compared to what I will experience in this next year, but for me this was a great way to make my entrance into this city!!

Since we've been back the girls and I have been busy finding new parks near and far from where we live! We explored the New York Botanical Gardens yesterday and today we spent most of the day at the Aquarium in Norwalk, CT!!

I get excited everytime I get to drive them places and even more excited when the day is done and I can blast my music on a little joy ride exploring my new place of residence!

I have yet to go into THE CITY, but with some friends that I know here it's bound to happen soon!!

It's time for me to take some more cough syrup and head to dreamland now, But I hope some of my Vacation adventures entertained you all!!

Until next time!

New York...New Beginnings!!

Hello my friends!!!!

It's been soooo long since I've blogged but this is the start of a new habit! I've just moved across the country from Phoenix to New York for a new nanny job! Since I'm now on a different time zone than most of my family back home and a lot of my friends around the country, I've decided that keeping a regular blog will be easier than trying to catch up with people on the phone. I also feel bad for the people that have me on their facebook timeline and don't really give a crap about my daily happenings, so this is where SoapNannyConfessions comes in. If you want to know about what's going on in my CRAZY life..then follow me here!! 

I know it's been a week now since I've been here and most of you have kept up on my travels via facebook but I just want to tell about how AWESOME my trip out here was! 

The road trip to my future!!....was AMAZING!!! I had such a great experience on my way here! I started on a saturday morning and had planned on stopping in New Mexico for the night at my friend Zou's friend's house.. I thought it was super nice that she was allowing me to crash with her when I hadn't even met her yet. Well, I ended up leaving too early because I was excited and I got to New Mexico by 1pm and if you know me at ALL, you'll know that I thought that would be a complete waste of a day to stop that early... so I just kept going! 
My destination the next day was my best friend Sara Mae's house in Keota, Oklahoma so I just decided that after 7 1/2 hours of driving that adding another 9 1/2 was nothing! LOL! I ended up getting there at 12:30am, but we didn't care.. it meant that we got an extra day together!

So I spent the next few days with some of my favorite people, going to Sara's church, shopping with her sister for school clothes, having the great pecan pie that her Gammy makes me everytime I go there, spending time with her niece and nephews and bugging the crap out of her with my obsession with the Olympics! loL! I had a great time and almost bawled my eyes out when I had to leave...but Idianapolis was next!

My friend from High school, Erica and her sweet little family had invited me to stay with them for two nights! I had sooo much fun! It had been almost three years since I had seem them and I hadn't met their newest baby girl yet either! Erica and I stayed up way too late the first night just catching up with eachother, talking family, friends, god and the craziness of our adult lives! The next morning I went to her school where she teaches and helped her get her classroom set up and I had a blast with that! lol! I met some of her teacher friends and they thought I was crazy, of course.. with all my stories of being a nanny, moving cross country and the soap opera event stuff mixed it, I bet I was the talk of the faculty break room for a few days! LOL!

The next day I set off to Philadelphia where I stayed with my Nanny friends Sue and Charlotte! Oh goodness, how I love them! They made me feel right at home and listened to my little freak outs I was having, knowing that was the last leg of my race and I would be going to my new home the next morning!
I had done EXTREMELY well being in denial that my world was changing and I couldn't run from it any longer!

So the day came and after fighting with the New Jersey turnpike and toll booths I had finally arrived in Scarsdale, NY .. at my new live-in family's house!
The girls greeted me at the door and the DB (Dad Boss) helped me unload my extremely packed car! Since they had only moved into the new house a few days before that, my room actually became the only room in the house completely unpacked! :)

So after an afternoon of unpacking, calling my parents and letting them know I had made it, and going to our first dinner as a family... I was pretty excited to start my first week as Princess and Diva's nanny!!!

So right now, it's friday night and I've lived here and work here for five days.. I'm as excited NOW as I was that first night.. They have proved to be awesome people and I believe this will be an amazing chapter to add to my life!

Just to clarify a few things for everyone... I will not be releasing the families real names, jobs or anything personal...This is just an outlet for me to let my friends and family (and anyone else out there) know what's going on in my life! So to protect everyone involved I will be changing names! 

The girls are Diva (5yrs old) and Princess (2yrs old).. DB (Dad boss) MB (Mom Boss) 
Just know from here on out in the Nanny side of things, the names aren't real! :)

Well, at some point I will write about my first week in detail and explain how exciting it is to be working in such a different culture or place than I ever have before.. but for now I must go to bed!

We leave at 8am for Vacation in Cape Cod tomorrow morning and I'm sure that in itself will be it's own blog when we return next weekend!!

Until then... Treat your caregivers like Gold! :)

Love Ya!!

Summer Kay the Soap Nanny!