#Awkward Moments

Dear Friend,
Have you been asked the question, "What is your most awkward moment?" I have. It always ends up with me saying that I honestly have too many to count to be able to tell you what my worst moment was. In these situations, people laugh and tell me that I must be wrong; unless they actually know me and know that I bring disaster like a hurricane to many situations. So please,  sit back, relax on this lovely Sunday night and laugh along with me as I retell a few of my awkward moments of this past month.

Baby Don't You Cry

This is what the baby doll, "Goat", looks like. 

As some of you may know I am a nanny and babysit a baby boy of the age of one. He is quite the dear and I love him to bits. He and I both agree that it is very important to have friends at this sweet age to get him used to other children. So, Gord and I invited his friend Layla over for a play date. This was wonderful for Layla's mom as she wanted a day to get Christmas shopping done and agreed for me to have her for the full day. The day was going wonderfully and it was even a warmer day in Grande Prairie, (when I say warmer I mean it was -10 instead of -30 ;) ) and we all agreed to head outside in our snowsuits and play. Layla insisted on bringing her baby alive doll, "Goat" outside to play in the snow as well.  I had no problem with this idea as this baby doll too had  a mini snowsuit to play in the snow with. All was well and dandy until one of the babes decided they were cold and we headed inside. In the rush to get inside and have lunch, I forgot "Goat" outside in the snow and that is where the trouble began. We all (Layla, Gord, and I) had been inside for about half an hour when there was a loud knock on the door. I was greeted by my neighbour, a really tall Dutch lady with really angry eyes and a baby on her hip. It wasn't a baby though... it was Goat. She started with, "HOW COULD YOU?! YOU CAN'T FORGET A CHILD OUTSIDE! THIS POOR BABY COULD FREEZE! I SHOULD CALL THE COPS!!!1" I, being extremely awkward and not sure what to do, laughed. I laughed really, really hard. In between laughs I croaked out, "It's a baby doll... aha.. I'm sorry to scare you... I.. aha.. forgot it outside when I brought the babies in." Perplexed my neighbour looks at the baby Goat and realizes. We ended up laughing so hard that we woke up the babies. It was alright though, I met the neighbour and Layla had Goat back. ;)

First Impressions

My second awkward moment of this month would be because  I was rushing too much. In the day of a nanny you must get a lot of work done in a short amount of time, and this particular day, everyone around me was on edge. I had been told that Gordon was going to have an "interview" with  a prospect daycare that my bosses want him to be in this upcoming school year. (Yes, he is only one, but you have to know these people to understand that this is completely normal in their minds) I was given specific instructions to make appetizers, bathe Gordon and dress him in the proper clothes for this meet and greet. However, the day went by and the things on the list were going much slower than I had hoped. I was rushing to get the appetizers done, and while that was happening Gordon decided to have a tantrum etc etc. I was late and my bosses and the interviewer would be home in about ten minutes. I scrambled to get the tub going. I was beginning to act like I was on auto pilot and the bath was started. We were about finished when I saw Gordon grab his mom's razor from the side of the tub. I automatically went to get the razor out of Gord's hands... but I lunged a little too far and I fell into the tub with Gordon. He thought this was hilarious,  but I must say I was trying to get out of that tub as fast as I could. That is when I heard the door open and the interviewer and the bosses walk into the house. Imagine me and Gord in the tub scrambling to get out as fast as we could. (well, as I could, as Gordon was laughing and splashing.) The conversation outside the bathroom was something like this,
Interviewer: "So tell me about your current childcare with your nanny."
Bosses: "We really like her alright, she is very mature (here I am stuck in the bathroom soaking wet with a naked baby laughing up at me) and takes her job seriously... etc etc.

*After a few minutes of not knowing what I should do as the bathroom is right beside the living room where my bosses were standing, I realized I had to get out of the bathroom and seal my fate as a irresponsible nanny and step outside of the bathroom soaking wet, with Gordon wrapped in a towel laughing about my humiliation* 

The conversation then went like;

Boss #1: "What the jolly ranchers happened, Summer?!" ( the conversation may have been altered slightly if you can't tell I wanted this blog to be less colourful ;) ) 

Boss #2 *to the interviewer* "Summer, ah, loves to be interactive with Gordon..."

Me: "Actually, it's kind of a funny story..." (I'm still dripping, Gordon is now "bahaha"ing)

Interviewer: " I've never been able to have a better story from work for my husband when I get home from work. You, nanny though, you have made that happen."

Boss #1- "Please go and change Gordon."

While inside Gordon's room I hear these words...

"She really takes 'being interactive with Gordon' seriously..." from the interviewer.

Woops! 

I have not seen that interviewer since. 

Laugh at the things you can't control, roll with the punches, love life. Nannying has taught me so much about how to live life right.

Your "awko taco" hippy,

Summer