{"id":1908,"date":"2016-07-16T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/07\/16\/a-northern-virginia-au-pair-comes-back-for-a-visit\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T04:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:24:50","slug":"a-northern-virginia-au-pair-comes-back-for-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2016\/07\/16\/a-northern-virginia-au-pair-comes-back-for-a-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"A northern Virginia au pair comes back for a visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12.727272033691406px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 17.99715805053711px;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;float: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aupairinamerica.com\/images\/main_content\/banner_au_pair_balcony.jpg\" alt=\"Latvian Au Pair, Zane\" width=\"392\" height=\"140\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12.727272033691406px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 17.99715805053711px;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;float: none\">&#8220;Three years ago I left my everyday life in Sweden to become an Au Pair in America. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect other then hoping to experience the American culture and take care<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12.727272033691406px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 17.99715805053711px;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;background-color: #ffffff\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>of children. I could never imagine having such a great year as I did! I lived outside of Washington DC in a family with three children. During my year, my host family became like a second family to me, the children were not only my host children, they were like my little siblings and my host mom became a really good friend. My year in America turned out to be the best thing I have ever done so far in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This June I visited my host family again and even though a lot of time has passed it all felt the same. Seeing the children again was wonderful and we spent a lovely weekend catching up on everything that has happened since I left. I consider myself very lucky having a second family in America and this is an experience I wish everyone could have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An au pair returns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,188,279,319,444],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pair","tag-fredericksburg","tag-live-in-childcare","tag-northern-virginia","tag-stafford"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A northern Virginia au pair comes back for a visit - Fredericksburg Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A northern Virginia au pair comes back for a visit - 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