Au Pair in America Local Community Counselor, serving host families and au pairs in the greater Boston area
Au Pair in America is the nation's first legal au pair program. Since 1986, we have provided the best child care opportunities to host families across the U.S. and au pairs from around the world.
On Saturday we went to a maple sugaring event in the Belmont habitat where we could learn how this typical New England tradition was made in the early days and today. Sandy Fisher a teacher for 20 years taught us which trees can be used, how to drill a hole into the tree Read More
Taxes have been a big topic lately and I’m sure there are lots of questions. I will go over tax questions at our cluster meeting next week. Here are some of the basic questions: Who is supposed to file taxes? – All au pairs (even those who don’t owe money) Will all au pairs have Read More
Yesterday we celebrated Valentine’s Day together at my house. Since we had many new aupairs who just arrived from Germany, Brazil, Colombia and Sweden we had a lot to chat and share information within our cluster. To see more pictures from our meeting please go to Valentine’s Day 2011. Read More
15 years after Dr. King’s death President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law making the third Monday of January a national holiday celebrating the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It took many years for Congress to decide to celebrate the holiday. In the years leading up to the official Read More
We had wonderful conditions for our snowtubing event tonight. The slopes were really fast and without wind relativ mild conditions. Alot of fun for our cluster as well as for all other clusters who came to this fun event from the greater Boston area. For more pics please go to snowtubing 2011. Read More
Last Sunday we went ice scating at the Frog Pond in Boston downtown. We welomed one aupair to our cluster as well as had to say good by to another. We had a great time with lots of sunshine to enjoy the scating in this wonderful park in Boston. The hot chocolate with the yummi donuts Read More
Cold and Flu Season The greatest number of children develops colds during the fall and winter months. It is a virus that is spread from person to person, either by direct contact or by contact with the virus in the environment. Colds are most contagious during the first two to four days. Prevention– Simple hygiene Read More
We enjoyed a wonderful Holiday party together at my house on Sunday, December12. Everybody brought something special to share for our international buffett, which was so delicious. Most of it was homemade. I am really proud of my aupairs who found the time to do this during this busy time of the year. Everybody took home some Read More
We had a chatty Thanksgiving dinner together on Sunday, Nov 14 at my house. Lots of food with a traditional turkey prepared by my husband Dirk, mashed potatoes prepared by my daughter’s boyfriend Ian, and much more to get into the mood for Thanksgiving. Many of us made new friends and shared their experience about Read More
We went to a self defense class together with the Cambridge cluster in Arlington last Thursday. Everybody enjoyed and showed alot of interest in this class. Please take another look at their web side: http://not-methoughts.blogspot.com/2010/11/aupairs-raise-money-from-not-me.html For more pictures go to self defens class Nov 2010 Read More
