I have a new nanny. She has been with us for a month now. I got her from an agency as I got desperate already since we have no nanny for almost three months now and since I am about to give birth soon, hubby suggested that we go try out getting yaya from an agency.

Of course I still have complains like she wakes up late in the morning that sometimes we skip breakfast because there is nothing to eat. But hubby said that I should extend my patience as we really can’t find the perfect yaya. I would always find something to complain about and so hubby said that I should have a change in mind set and be more patient with our house help, and who knows things might work out for us this way.

But our yaya left this morning and she will be gone for a week as she has to go to the province to attend the funeral of her uncle. She promised to be back on Friday so we will see if she will hold true to her promise. If not, then it is another round of nanny hunting again.

I will just post a rant here. Actually, I am quite happy with my new nanny. She has been with us for more than a month already and we are happy with how she works. She wakes up early so she was already able to clean the house even before we wakes up, she is hardworking as you always see her working, and she really has a pleasant personality since she is always smiling. Bela also loves her since she is really sweet to Bela since she is a mother too so she knows how to get Bela’s weakness and attention.

But I was just really pissed when we woke up this morning since she just left a note on the table to inform us that she is taking a day off today. Her husband arrived last night and she asked our permission if she can sleep at their friend’s house so she can be with her husband. We allowed her since she promised that she will be back in the morning. We were supposed to go out today to look for discount lighting fixtures so we were surprised when we read her note since we plan to just leave Bela with her while Howell and I are out.

We will really not care if she takes a day off again even if she just had a day off last Sunday. Our only concern is she should have told us in advance of her plan so we can adjust our schedule too.

Oh well, we can never really find a perfect nanny, right? I guess I just have to talk to her when she arrives later so this will not happen again.

It’s been almost a week since I asked my yaya to leave (you can read the story here) and up to now we are still yayaless and I am not even looking for a replacement. Maybe I just got tired of trying one yaya after the other only to realize that it is really not working out.

Our set up now is we just have a stay out yaya who helps my mom with Bela while Howell and I are in the office then in the evening, hubby and I take care of Bela. For now, we are both enjoying it. Less stress for me since I don’t have to deal with an unreliable yaya and more bonding time with Bela. And we have survived a week with that setup and so far I still like it. (I just don’t know with my mom because she is the one who is with Bela the whole day. LOL).

Just like today, we went to her class and we attended a party then we event went to SM and we survived the day without a nanny. I told my mom that I am already tired of looking for the right nanny for us. I told her that the right nanny will come even if I don’t look for one. I am hoping that God will took pity on us and will just send an angel to help us (specially my mom) in taking care of Bela.

For now, I am still hoping for that miracle to happen and I think I will still go with this setup. (I just don’t know though up to when we can last this way. LOL).

I was really planning to talk to my nanny this morning to tell her that she better clean up her act or else we will have to let her go. But I just received the best news ever this morning.

My nanny texted me and said that she can only stay up to the end of August as she wants to concentrate on her AVON business. Good luck to her. LOL. I think she is already lucky that we allowed her to do business on the side while being Bela’s yaya and so I really hate it that she is abusing our kindness.

This is the best thing that she has done so far. LOL. At least I don’t have to ask her to leave, which is the hardest part for me to do. That is why even though I really hate her so much, I can’t ask her to leave because I don’t know how to say it nicely. But since she volunteered to leave, then well and good. I was all smiles while I was reading her text. But I must say that Howell got worried and was really not happy with the text that we got from our yaya because he still thinks that we can no longer get a better replacement for our yaya now.

I admit that it would really be difficult to look for a new yaya that will do a good job with our daughter and will really take care of her. But I just have to pray for it since things are really not working well between me and my yaya. So it’s really time for her to go. So I’m now on the search for a new yaya for Bela. Please help me pray that the replacement that we will be getting will really take good care of my daughter.

This is the sign that greeted me last night when we arrived home. We left our nanny at home as I can’t bear to spend a day with her (yeah, I am that irritated with her) and when we reached home, there is a sign in our front door saying “E-Load here.”

We allowed our nanny to do business on the side while being Bela’s nanny. She is selling Avon products and we allowed her since she promised that she will only sell her goods at Bela’s school. But then she started selling her goods too in our neighborhood so there are times that she will ask for my permission if she can go out since she has to collect payments from her buyers. Then she will ask permission too every Saturday to go to Avon because she needs to get her orders. She did not hear anything from us as we know that she also needed the extra money to send to her family in the province.

But when I saw the sign in our front door about E-load, then I said it is too much already. I asked Howell to talk to her and remove the signage. Imagine, there would be a lot of people who will go to our house to purchase E-load from her. What if Bela is sleeping? Bela takes a nap in the sala and she easily gets distracted even with small noise. So it means my daughter will not be able to have a good nap.

Well I guess we have been too linient on her. Howell said that our nanny asked his permission before we left yesterday if she can put the signage and my husband said no way. So even my husband was shocked when he saw the signage when we reached home. This only gets to show that my nanny no longer knows how to respect the authority.

So that’s it. I really have to talk to her.

Darn, I lost another thousand bucks. Remember my post just this week about my ranting and about my suspicion after I discovered that I just lost P1,100 from the money that I kept inside my bag?

After I discovered just this Monday, that somebody’s been getting (I still don’t want to use the term stealing) money from my bag, I started to arrange my personal money and put it in my wallet. And I can clearly remember that the money that I kept there is exactly P10, 500. I’m just at home from Tuesday to Wednesday since I’m sick. I tried to bring my bag with me everywhere I go inside the house. But there are times that I will leave it in the living room while I’m upstairs and yaya is in the living room with Bela. I know I already said that I already learned my lesson and that I should take good care of my important belongings but maybe there is still a part of part me that still wants to believe that we can still trust her. And I confidently thought that whaterver monkey business she’s doing, she will not be brave enough to do it while I was at home.

But lo and behold, when I checked the P10, 500 in my wallet because I need to pay something, I discovered that is P1, 000 short. I couldn’t believe that I’m just at home, and it’s just me, Bela and yaya in the house for two days and I still lost P1, 000. Should I still continue to believe that my yaya is still innocent? P2, 100 is not a big amount of money. But my gosh, I can easily give it to her if she badly needs it. I just can’t stand the fact that I’m taking care of a thief in my house and that someone I truly trust can be doing this to me.

I don’t know what to do now. I haven’t told anyone else from my family about this except Howell. I don’t know how they will react so I’m scared to tell them about my speculations. I’m pissed. I don’t want to think about it too much but as days passed, I’m beginning to think if I can still trust her. Darn…. I really don’t know what to do.

My yaya is starting to irritate me already. She’s been with us for seven months now. We have been very lenient with her and we don’t even impose rules on her. Maybe that’s why she’s so comfortable now that she tries to answer back or tries to reason out if she doesn’t want to do what I’m asking her to do.

Like last Sunday, I was already not feeling well and I requested for a hot soup for merienda. And she keeps on saying that there’s a donut in the refrigerator. Arrg, I don’t like a donut, I want a hot soup.

And then yesterday, I was asking her to put back Bela’s play mat because Bela kept on lying down on the floor and the floor is cold without the mat. But she didn’t listen and she just said that the mat is upstairs.

And then another thing that bothers me is this. Yesterday, I checked the money in my bag. You see, I put my money in different envelopes in my bag. One envelope is for my credit card payments, the second envelope is for the loan payment that Howell is giving me and the third envelope is my personal money. When I checked on the envelopes, one envelope is P500 short, and the other envelope is P600 short. I don’t think I’m the one who got the P1,100 since each envelope has a post it where I list all the debits and the credits for that envelope. A month ago, I already lost P500 but I didn’t take it as a big deal. Now, I’m wondering who has been getting the money in my bag. I don’t want to make speculations and I don’t want to jump into conclusions but there’s just the three of us in the house. I was asking Howell for his reaction and all he could say is he doesn’t know.and he just told me that I shouldn’t just leave my bags lying in the living room. Oh well, at least now I learned my lessons.

Now I’m thinking is it still worth it to retain her as our yaya? Actually, she’s the best out of all the 4 yayas that I got. She has initiative and I think she loves Bela and takes good care of her. There are just instances that she really irritates me. Well we’ll see….

My yaya arrived 1 AM this morning. Yehey! We really need her badly na at super gulo na ng house namin. It’s a real chaos.

Tamang tama, as we will be attending a wedding tomorrow in Tagaytay. Bela will be one of the flower girls. We can’t spend the night in Tagaytay as Howell will be attending the despedida of his former supervisor who will be leaving for US next week. So we will just leave early tomorrow for the 10 AM wedding.

I got a text message from my yaya this afternoon. She won’t be able to arrive here in Manila tomorrow as she was not able to get a boat ride from their house in Rapu Rapu Island to Legazpi since all rides are cancelled due to heavy rains and strong winds. Hopefully she can catch a ride tomorrow AM as what she promised so she will be here by Friday. Howell will have three events in the weekend and Sunday is Bela’s first day of class at the Little Gym for this quarter so I really need her here to assist me with Bela while Howell is out. Oh well, I just have to pray that she will be able to get a ride and arrive safely here in Manila on Friday.

I read Toni’s post that they will be yaya less this coming week. Well, I’m on the same boat too. My yaya is leaving today to spend her new year with her family in Bicol. She will be there until January 1 and will leave for Manila on January 2. Hopefully she will be true to her words and she will arrive here on the 3rd of January.

So more bonding time with Bela this coming week. Looking forward to it.

Today is the 4th day of my yaya. These are the things that we’ve noticed:

1. My mom really doesn’t like her. LOL. But I’m aware that she is really against hiring a yaya so it is understandable that she would hate all the yayas that I would hire. Even though we have a yaya, my mom would still stay at our house when we’re at work so she can supervise the yaya and can oversee how she is taking care of Bela. So most of the time, the yaya is always with my mom and I’ve noticed that my mom is really not happy with how she worked.
2. She always wakes up late. Everyday, naauna pa magising si Howell sa kanya and we have to wake her up so she can start cooking breakfast and prepare our baon.
3. According to my sister and mom, she is always sleeping specially after lunch.
4. So far, I’m quite happy with how she worked but I’ve noticed that you have to repeat the instructions to her several times before she can understand it.
5. She loves watching basketball. There’s a basketball league in our barangay now and she loves to watch the games than take care of Bela. LOL.

Last night when we arrived, my yaya talked to me and this is how the conversation goes:

Yaya: Ate, may sasabihin pala ako sayo. Aalis pala ako.
Me: Saan ka punta, mag day off ka ba?
Yaya: Hindi po. Kse po kanina montik na masagasaan si Bela ng Tricycab (I don’t know if she is referring to a tricycle or a side car). Tapos po sabi ng mommy mo, pag nasagasaan si Bela, papatayin nya ako.

I was really laughing this time because I know that my mom was only joking when she said that.
Me: Ay ganon ba. Joke lang yun. Di naman nya gagawin sayo yun. Ganon lang talaga expressions nya.
Yaya: Nakausap ko na po si Manang Siony. Susunduin na lang daw po nya ako dito.

Manang Siony is the one who gave us the yaya.

Yaya: Di ko po kse kaya mag alaga ng bata at sinabi ko po sa tita ko at sabi po nya, mahirap daw po talaga pag may alagang bata kse nakataya buhay mo.
Me: Cge, ikaw bahala. Ok lang sa akin.

Well at least, she is the one who admitted that she couldn’t take care of Bela. Kse tingin ko if we’re really not happy with her service, either Howell and I would really find it difficult to tell her that we are letting her go. At least, she made the decision for us and she really made the situation for us easier.

Manang Siony promised to give us a new yaya. Yung ibibigay daw nya, nag aalaga na daw talaga ng bata dati. Yung yaya kse na binigay nya sa amin ngayon eh first time pa lang sa Manila so kami pa lang ang una nyang napasukan kaya medyo naninibago pa sya. And I think, she was not informed by Manang Siony that she have to take care of my daughter. Ang alam lang ata nyang work nya is taga luto ata taga lnis ng bahay. Kse noong unang gabi nya sa amin, nagulat sya noong sinabi ko na may anak ako.

Hopefully, maayos naman yung ipapalit na yaya sa amin ni Manang Siony.

We now have a yaya for Bela.

My daughter is now 1 year and 4 months old and ever since I gave birth to her, we didn’t hire a yaya to take care of her. My mom doesn’t like the idea of hiring a yaya. She wants to personally take care of the baby since nasa house lang naman daw sya (retired na kse sya kaya di na sya nag wo-work ngayon). And since first apo nya si Bela, sobrang happy talaga sya in taking care of my daughter.

Kaya we decided not to hire a yaya na lang but instead we hire a house help. We we’re able to get one of our neighbors to be our house help but she doesn’t stay with us. What she does is just come in the morning to prepare breakfast, cook our baon, wash & sterilize Bela’s bottles, clean and tidy up the house, wash bela and our clothes. Then she’ll leave na after doing all that.

This usually works for us. But now that Bela is already 1 year old, sobrang likot na nya and I know na hirap na din si mommy na alagaan sya. So we decided to talk to my mom and she agreed naman. Siguro nahihirapan na din talaga sya. LOL.

So our search for yaya began. Syempre, we always consult my mom every time we found a prospective yaya for us but every time, she always have reasons or negative feedbacks about the yaya we are hiring. So it’s been months now since we started looking for our yaya. Then I talked to my dad and he said, if I listen to my mom, I might have four children already and still I won’t have any yaya for my daughter. He said that my mom is like that even when we are still kids. She has a bad experience kse with our yaya when we are still kids so she strongly dislikes the idea of us hiring a yaya for our daughter.

So I was really happy when my brother texted me last week and said that the yaya that we ordered daw has arrived na. My dad has a friend pala, who scouts for yayas and provides yayas to those who needed them and my dad ordered one for us (Yun yung term ng daddy ko, umorder na daw sya ng yaya. LOL) And I know na hindi na talaga makakatangi mommy ko kapag daddy ko na nag decide kaya, wala na syang nagawa kung di pumayag na.
Last night dumating na yung yaya naming and mukhang ok naman sya. Pag gising ko, nakaluto na sya and nag lilinis na sa taas and nakalinis na sya sa baba. Mukhang gusto din sya ni Bela, kse nakikipag laro na agad si Bela sa kanya noong nakita sya ni Bela kaninang umaga. Hopefully, ok talaga sya and sana mag kasundo sila ng mommy ko.