Bye Bye, Aoife!

Back at the end of July, we were in need of a new nanny on short notice, so we started a search hoping to find someone suitable. Well, we must have a four-leaf clover in our front yard because we found Aoife with the first call we made! With the kids headed for daycare at the start of September and Aoife heading back to her home in Ireland for her final year of university, it was a match made in heaven! Aoife did a fabulous job, the transition went swimmingly, and she and the kids had so much fun in August. Weekly bus trips to see the changing of the guard and the stray cats on the Hill, countless trips to the park, and endless amounts of time doing arts and crafts (not to mention a final day trip to see Ray's Reptiles -Isabelle touched a snake and held a tarantula!); Aoife was a big hit in our eyes and theirs. Not once did we worry, she always had things well in hand and Isabelle was always excited to see her. Isabelle and her parents are very sad to see her go, but we wish her all the best in her final year of studies and look forward to having her back to visit (and hopefully babysit!) when she returns to Canada in the spring!