The Nannies Compare Notes

   On Mondays and Wednesdays we have two nannies and it's interesting to watch them interact with one another.  Josephine, from St. Luci, and Samantha from Jamaica traded off today.  Josephine was going, Samantha was coming.  Jordan had tried to get Josephine to be her full time nanny, but she still wants to work for the three different families she has over the years.  It's strange...because its a lot of traveling and peacemeal days, half a day in NY, half a day in Brooklyn.  Josephine was not ready to leave her families even though for two of them the kids are grown and she's cleaning their houses.
   I could see today as Samantha and Josephine compared notes, that they were doing whatever emloyees will do when they get together-talk about their holidays, their jobs, what they're doing.  It reminded me of two ladies at a sewing circle. 
    Samantha, who is always well dressed when she arrives, said she'd had a great weekend and not gotten to bed until 6am.  She looked happy.  She also said she was going to Atlanta this weekend with her husband and children.
    Then somehow the talk meandered around to the girls.  Samantha said she thought they looked alike.  She also said that she "burps" Gigi right after 5 ounces and that way she doesn't throw up.  Josephine nodded that she did the same thing.
     I mentioned how we'd met these two twins over the weekend who lived in the neighborhood.  They were having a book and lemonade sale and we found out the boy and girl were twins.  I said they didn't look alike at all-the girl looked a couple of years older than the boy and she was a completely different body type.  
   I mentioned how Nancy, a mother of another set of twins, said that her girls traded positions-one would be fussy and the other one easy.  And then they would switch back. Apparently that is a trait.
   Josephine said she knew the twins I was referring to, that they were in school with the girl she watches.  They went to PS29, the neighborhood school all the families want.  That's why the rents have risen 25% in the last 7 months!
   Josephine said she needed to get going-picking the girls up at school, and she said her goodbyes.
    Samatha got "undressed".  When she nannies she takes her wig off, and there is her short braided hair, she wears old hospital socks, warm up pants and a top.  The other day she was so hot she was in her bra for a few minutes.  I told her you wouldn't recognize her from seeing her on the street.  We are a 3rd floor walk up in a Brownstone and we rarely get visitors.
   It's a funny world!