Another list: [link] This one also lists places where you can get a free sharps container if you don't have one already, though I assume you do.

oh that's right! ita doesn't use Amazon.

But, Burrell, even when you had full-time caregivers for your mom, it had to make you nuts to have people who were not your family there?

Oh well then, yeah, but that was in part a space issue. Too many bodies in too little space. Plus we had to feed them, usually 2 or 3 meals a day. The only cleaning they did was mom-related: washing her wet bedding in the morning, for example.

My pharmacy delivers. And a new script is being written this week. If I can't just drop it off at Wlagreens when I pick up a script, and working out how to it myself sounds like an adventure, I'll make sure to ask them how before they come over with they're incredibly anonymous white bag. People must figure I'm having sex toys delivered to my door.

I never got used to having a nanny, and even though it's made our lives more difficult in many ways not having her, my mental health is much better for it. I think I could have made things easier if I'd sat her down and said "the way you are putting the kids' toys away is driving me completely bugfuck, here is my system please use it" but honestly the whole relationship made me uncomfortable. I just didn't like someone else living in my house.

(The irony is, we may wind up with a babysitter again next year if Dylan gets into the school we want, because there will be 3 or 4 kids from this building all riding the bus together, and it makes much more sense to hire someone to pick them up at the bus stop and sit for a few hours every day than the sign them all up for afterschool care and work out the logistics of carpooling from Crown Heights at 5pm every day. BUT it will be a share, so not in our apartment all the time, and it will only be for 2-3 hours a day. How we work out on-the-books payment with 3 families involved, I have no idea. Maybe we'll just pay cash under the table and skip the tax break in favor of simplicity.)

Set up an LLC?

I'm not being a complete wiseass. [link]

You should talk to Sparky - I know she's been through a lot of this stuff with shared nannies.

Isn't starting an official legal-in-the-eyes-of-the-IRS a really big step? Wouldn't something like rotating which month each family pays the sitter or something (I have no real idea, just throwing things at the wall) the normal way one family would pay a sitter be simpler?

I'm going to my cousins' b'nai mitzvah this weekend. I have no idea what to get as presents for them. I think I might just get Barnes & Noble gift cards. I don't really know them well enough to pick out things they'd like.

Hi, guys. Long time no see.