Só estou passando p falar q tudo esta indo...e q eu estou a beira da loucura hahahaha, ainda nao tenho muitas novidades, minha Host me escreve sempre e eu queria compartilhar o ultimo email q ela me mandou....eu fiquei tao mais tao felizzzz, nele ela conta como foi q ela me escolheuuu le ai gente e comenta, bjimmmm

Hi Tati,OK – so we both wait for the agency.  I’m pretty excited and anxious too!!!  I just want the deal done too even if they say you’re coming early February. As far as church goes, there are tons of church in the neighborhood and of course, you’re free to go on Sunday and any other evening socials/meetings during the week.  We go to Voyagers Bible www.voyagers.org church even though I’m catholic and Erik is Presbyterian, so those are mostly the people we know.  I only know of one other family who is Mormon, but I’m sure once you join the church you’ll meet many others.Your church is called Church Of Jesus Christ Of Lds and is 1.4 miles from our house – it’s by the lake in the next neighborhood. 

It’s funny that you and I chose each other after all.  You were the first person that I saw on Great Au Pair – the very first one to email!!!  Then, after emailing back and forth, we decided that we couldn’t choose you at first because I wasn’t going to use an agency.  So I talked to maybe 30-40 more au pairs, and even considered just hiring someone local (US nanny), but something changed my mind (and husband too).  I talked to so many friends including Alessandra and we decided to give the agency another chance (different one than the one Alessandra used).  Most of the au pairs on Great Au Pair were using Au Pair Care and very few were using Cultural Care.  We didn’t’ have a preference which agency, so I looked at all the people I emailed again and I was going to choose the agency that au pair was signed up with. So we emailed you again, and you were still available and we were glad.  I guess something kept bringing us back to you and so that’s how we chose Cultural Care – because we decided to go with you.  It also helped that Alessandra thought you were her favorite.  The funny thing is that I had a similar experience with Alessandra.  I had already told an American lady I was going to hire her and then out of the blue, Alessandra responded to my advertisement online.  I was traveling and didn’t have time to reply to her and thought it’s no use since I already found a lady, but she wasn’t my first choice.  I ended up calling Alessandra just to be nice – because she had emailed me and I thought it would be rude to not email back.  Ever since, we emailed back and forth.  She was also with an agency, and we didn’t want to pay so much money.  After meeting Alessandra, we knew that she would be great with our family and that it was worth it to pay the agency.I can’t explain why things happen the way they do.  Sometimes, you think you know what you’re doing and have determined a path.  Then you wake up one day and a different choice has been made for you.  Alessandra almost had to leave my family before because I lost my job.  Just when she was ready to switch family, my old friend gave me a job the same day.  Otherwise, we couldn’t have afforded Alessandra.  So now we laugh because every time we think she’s going to leave us, she ends up staying and even now, we know she’s going to come back.So I tell you this story about Alessandra because I think it’s kind of the same with you.  I thought we didn’t have a deal since I had made up my mind we’re not using an agency, but after emailing with you and talking with Alessandra, something convinced us to go with an agency just so we can have you in our family.  It’s just a gut feeling and very hard to explain.  Sometimes it’s those kinds of feelings that you have to listen to even though other choices may seem to be OK as well.  I hope you understand all that I said.  There were many au pairs that were also nice and had good experience with kids, but in the end, we go with the gut feeling that you can’t really measure on paper. I hope you feel that you also made a good choice and plus it helps that you were able to talk with Mariana and Alessandra to make sure my family is OK for you too.

 Have a good evening and keep me posted on what the agency says to you.

Best regards,
Marygrace