I actually managed to go an entire week without humiliating myself so no Mortified Mama Monday today.  The craziness of the week has probably saved me from utter embarrassment.  On the downside, the craziness of this week has given me a deep and dark craving for sugar, and hot baths, and a vacation in Tahiti.About a month ago Techie and I hired a nanny to care for Chibby in our home three days a week so that I could help with an upcoming project.  I interviewed several nannies, did background checks, and hired a young, atheltic, and well spoken nanny.  She came highly recommended and was working several other days a week for a pair of doctors taking care of their three children.  My one sweet baby should have been a breeze. Being a proud stay-at-home mom of 18 months it was exceedingly difficult for me to leave my precious baby with someone else, but I did it.  About a week after we started leaving him with the nanny I started noticing little “behaviors” popping up.  All of the sudden there are fits about things there weren’t before and everything felt disjointed.  I gave the nanny a schedule and showed her how we feed Chib and put him to sleep.  All the while a voice inside was telling me to fire her.Friday, I came home to find my sons in shambles.  For the first hour that I was home it was disaster.  I decided to give Chibby a snack thinking that I was up against a cranky-butt-low-blood-sugar-meltdown.  I was half right.  I sat him down with some popcorn and he ate like he hadn’t been fed all day. I checked the refrigerator where I’d left a lasagna for the nanny to heat up for Chibby’s lunch.  Missing from the lasagna was the tiniest square.  Apparently our health obsessed anorexic nanny decided that a 1″ inch serving of lasagna was enough for an extremely active toddler’s lunch. As he finished up his snack and I swear a half gallon of milk, he promptly passed out on the couch….at 4:30.  Moms: does that sound like a child who supposably had a 2 hour nap at 11:30?  No way.  Rule #1 of Toddler Care: Dont’ screw with the schedule.  Toddlers need naps, even if you have trouble getting them to sleep, they need naps like they need oxygen.  Donald Trump couldn’t say it any better.  SHE’S FIRED.Are there more qualified nannies out there?  Sure.  I’ll probably hire someone to come in one day a week so I can still be of some help to Techie and his project but any work that I do in the future will be at home, with my son.  I am stay-at-home mama through and through.  No one is more qualified to take care of my son than I am. For Techie & I if that means living on a tight budget and working our tails off during naps and after the baby goes to bed than that’s what we’ll do. I have nothing but respect for the many mama’s who work outside the home.  I have no idea how they do it.   As for Chibby, he pigged out two days in a row and this morning he clinged anxiously to me until the nanny failed to arrive, then his beautiful blue eyes lit up like they haven’t in weeks. Mine too.