Chapter 6 – Bettes Creations

Bette is just finishing up setting up her new web mail. This is the site she wants to use to send Tina different informative emails that she has planned out as time moves forward. Now was the time to get this going. Bette changed the email name to Care from Au Pair and forwarded Tina an email detailing the advantages of using an au pair for daycare. The email was formatted in the form of an advertisement which Bette knew would entice Tinas eye to open and read. Why should you consider an au pair for your childcare needs? was the subject line. In the ad type email Bette put together the pros and cons of au pair type daycare. This was a form a daycare where you invite or host a qualified student from another country to come and live in your house. The AuPair service provides a qualified person who is well trained to provide quality care for you child. The au pair will work up to 45 hours per week but being in the home makes the hours more flexible to the needs of the individual and the child. The salary is affordable, reasonable and the idea that this would provides a rare experience which would enrich Annas perspective on the world captured Bettes imagination. Granted the negative is that each girl would only stay for one year at a time but if you embrace the aspect of different cultural experiences for your family this provides an opportunity to see and feel many different cultures in your home. Bette really hoped that Tina would look into this aspect of childcare but if not she had already hired a private investigator to research the backgrounds of about 20 nannies that Bette felt she could screen and then would somehow forward for Tina to interview. Of course all of this Bette was trying to complete on the QT without Tinas knowledge.

Finishing up her email, Bette looked at the clock and realized she would have to hurry if she was to make it to the airport in time to pick up Jackie without making her wait for a rude amount of time. Bette quickly shuts down her laptop, straightens up her desk and grabs her suite coat as she exits her office. On the way out she runs into Helena. Helena I hope you remembered that I will be out of the office for the next few days on personal time.