Oh and I know I am late to this, but

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It would probably be best to go through an agency for an au pair, I bet. Are you thinking the master because it has an attached bath?

Yep. I am not even sure a live-in could work, because I cannot pay a real au pair salary, but if I could find something to work, I think a private bath for them would be needed and I also think mac would do better sharing with me than with someone new.

True.

A woman in our neighborhood has an au pair, and the girls love her, but I have no idea what she pays. I've never, in fact, met her, only the au pair. She's divorced and works full-time, so.

Some friends of mine had an au pair for a while while both parents were in grad school. They said that they didn't have to pay as much as they would for a regular live-in nanny.

True au pairs aren't paid a real salary (they get room & board and a small monthly sum), but then they are also not trained and can't stay more than a year.

Sounds like a typical day in his life! What was the play?

It's called Compulsion, and it's a not-at-all-veiled dramatization of Meyer Levin's obsession with the Anne Frank story, and how he went from representing Otto Frank's interests in negotiating with American publishers to suing the publishers and Otto Frank for having stolen his ideas for the Pulitzer-winning stage play based on the book. He really went off the deep end, and by the 1970s he was accusing Lillian Hellman of stealing his mail.

Patinkin was fabulous in it, but it was not a happy play, given the subject matter. Very well done, though.

yeah I have just been reading up. I could probably swing it, I would just need to identify us as a special needs situation and interview any potential matches. I think I am going to talk to my parents about it and maybe call a few agencies.

I need a vacation FOR home improvement. So many things I'd like to get to, but simply not enough time with daily life, especially my daily life now. I'm not complaining, just still adjusting.

I wish I had your drive to actually DO home improvement. I really admire what you've done, and continue to do.

Well, part of it is that there's stuff I want to do, but I still feel like it's "The Boy's house" when it comes to actual home improvements. I call it "our house," and I feel that way most of the time, but then when I think about putting up shelves over the desk, I feel like I'm asking him to make a Big! Structural! Change! to HIS HOUSE.

I realize that's kind of insane, but I'm still adjusting to living somewhere the landlord doesn't just come fix the a/c when it goes out.

Msbelle, if you have more questions, we have a great au pair living with us.

Eta: we used Au Pair Care as our agency.