Ventura Familia

This family is taking over Care.com!!! I’m no longer a stay at home Mom, I am now officially a work at home Mom!! I started my job on the Mom Force last week with training and have had 3 successful days of working from home. I’m really liking it a lot!

Training was tough, it was 3 looong days, but it actually went by faster than I thought it would and I think the time away from home and away from each other was good for both Lauren and I! Training was last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am to 5pm plus driving time, I was gone from 8am to 6pm…those are really long days for someone who hasn’t worked in 2 years!! But it was good, I learned a lot and had some fun! And I ate really well….Care.com likes to feed their employees

And Lauren made it through the days pretty well, too. Poor Tanya had the worst of it. She watched her the first day, which also happened to be her birthday, and it was kind of rough. Lauren screamed for the first hour and was fussy for the last hour but was okay for the time between. But she had 4 poops (that’s unheard of!!) so that, plus Jack and Emme….Tanya has never changed so many diapers in 1 day in her life!!! I seriously can’t thank Tanya enough for watching her, on the first day, along with her 3 children, on her birthday…she is a rock star!!!

As much as I don’t want to admit it to Tanya, Lauren did really well the next 2 days! Jenny watched her on Thursday and she said there were no tears. She went to Early Intervention group with Ari and had a blast! They want Lauren to go back to be a model student!! Then Mom watched her here on Friday, which I was nervous about because I thought she’d associate home with me and be upset all day but again, there were no tears! A little upset for a few minutes after I left but no tantrums or meltdowns! I’m so proud of her for being such a big girl!!

So I’m liking the job a lot! The company is really great and I’m glad I got the chance to go to the office. It’s very modern and high tech but still very causal and they are very accommodating and generous to their employees. A seriously huge transition from the last place I worked. Pretty much exact opposites. I think they value their employees and want to keep them happy and comfortable, which results in people excelling at their job and a lot less turnover, which is a really good thing. I’m so happy to be a part of Care.com….and I can’t wait to bring home a paycheck!!