The snowball has melted...

This is good news, actually. Because it means we have found a nanny!

My friend Megan, a teacher, won't need her nanny this summer so we are going to hire her for the summer. Starting in the fall we have super nanny arriving. She's a professional nanny working for a family in the Boston metro area that won't need her come the fall. The reason she can't start this summer is that she spends the summer with this family at their home on Nantucket (an island off the coast of cape code, MA). She has incredible references, loads of experience, is taking a pay cut by working for us and we're the perfect match for her too. She's a nursing student, taking night classes who needs one day during the week for her clinicals - which will be the day my mother will watch Arianna. It's a win-win situation. We couldn't be happier.

The down side is that our snowball has melted. The snowball is what we call our debt pay-off. We had been sending $1700 per month (roughly) to pay off debt and had done amazingly well since January of last year (take note our debt pay-off ticket at the bottom). We are more than doubling our child care expenses, add in my diet and the snowball is gone. We will get back a large chunk of change once my diet is finished in October though, so thats something to look forward to.

As hard as that is for me to adjust to - its not so bad knowing we have excellent people watching our baby, and I don't have to quit my job.