Every Real Grown-Up Should Have…

… a couple of kids for best friends.

I know I’ve horribly neglected talking about my ever-interesting job as a nanny lately, but I really cannot stress enough just how clutch Kai and Amélie have been in maintaining my sanity level over the past several months.

It’s important for grown-ups to hang out with kids because they don’t take themselves too seriously. Which is not to say that they are not serious. But today when the three of us were working on our Christmas lists (more on those later), and I couldn’t decide what to ask Santa for, Amélie said, “You just have to make up your mind, y’know? Like I did. I just asked for some stuff I wanted.” Gosh, she makes life sound so simple. All I have to do is ask? And Kai really put things in perspective for me today when he added, as a post script to his Santa letter, “It must be tiring.” Yeah, I’ll bet it is tiring to be Santa. After all, delivering toys to the world’s good children must be worse than carrying 18 credit hours and a full-time job, right?

These kids keep it real. They also happen to be well-behaved, loyal, kind and generous, and totally gorgeous. I’m a lucky lady.