All mothers want to hire the very best nanny they can, even if they don’t want to have a nanny. Many will hire a nanny and then ask that nanny to watch the cat or just stare at a cup of water on the kitchen counter because in reality THEY HAVE NO CHILDREN!!! THEY ARE JUST “MOTHERS” IN THE SENSE THAT THEY ARE NOT FATHERS!!! And so they read part I and part II of this series of blog entries and find out how to hire a nanny. They find out how to find this nanny, to negotiate a salary, benefits and movie rights. Then there is the one question that is still hanging in the air. The one THEY MUST HAVE THE ANSWER TO IF THEY ARE TO READ THIS FAR INTO MY ARTICLE!!! How do they keep the nanny from having hot sex with their husband?
This is almost impossible. Imagine you are watching a movie. In the movie one of the Baldwin brothers plays a father. Some actress who was in a Sit Com in the 1980s plays his wife. His children are played by children. Another of the Baldwin brothers, IN DRAG!!! plays his mother. Scene one just establishes the scene. The kids are a little out of control. Diane from Cheers complains that being a happy homemaker is not satisfying enough, she wants to go back to work. She gets a job as a secretary in a hilarious used car lot run by the handyman from One Day at a Time. Not Mr. Roper, the handyman from One Day at a Time. Well, half way through the first reel in comes whomever is Drew Barrymore these days. She’s the new nanny.
Now at this point you know that Drew and Baldwin X are going to be doing something besides rinsing dinner glasses before too long. You just know it! Meanwhile the handyman guy is all over Diane and suddenly Woody walks in, though now he’s played by the kid from Lost in Space, all grown up. He’s all like “Diane, why did you leave that baseball playing guy? He’s all said and stuff. And Fraser’s got another show, and it doesn’t look that good.”
So what, as a mother, can you do?
First off, forget about not hiring a good looking nanny. Men just don’t care that much.
And don’t put secret little cameras all over the house. Those things are like a big neon sign screaming “HEY YOU!! HAVE ILLICIT NOOKY!!” Who doesn’t want to get into one of those video collections with people who are caught on tape? There are actors, and I’ve heard the Baldwin brothers mentioned, who are waiting in line to be in something like “CAUGHT AT THE OFFICE IV, ALL GIRL!”
But there are things you can do.
1) Plan on coming home early three or four days a week. Throw the front door open and scream “CAUGHT YOU YOU LYING SCUM BAG! GET THE HELL OFF OF HER!” Even if you don’t catch them the first few times, eventually it will work. The only issue can be if you have a nervous dog, like a poodle or a labradoodle or papadoodle or pickamoooky or some crazy thing like that. It might just fall over dead.
2) Teach your children to spy on your husband. In turn he will teach them to lie to you, so they learn a lot of useful stuff.
3) Hire your ex-husband, dressed as a fat old lady, as your nanny. Even if your current husband does get somewhere with him, the jokes on them!
4) Beat him to the punch by having hot girl-girl action with her yourself.
5) Stay home and take care of the kids and send the nanny to your job.
6) Stay home and watch the nanny and send the kids to your job.
7) Go to work, but take the nanny and kids with you.
Go to work, take the kids, meet the nanny at lunchtime and have her go back to your office with the kids, you go home.
9) Go to work, take your husband, at lunch he gets the kids and takes them to his job, you and the nanny have the afternoon off.
10) You, the nanny, your husband and your neighbors kids all go to your job. Your kids stay with your neighbors nanny. This best part of this is that you don’t have to pay her, the neighbors do! So the jokes on them.