Dear Granny Aupair-Team,

you have sent us a jewel with Gisela. She has a great way of dealing with our children and supports us very much. Every day we are grateful anew.

We appreciate it because we have also experienced that it can be different. That there are Grannies who have or get no access to children and unfortunately have other motives than to get involved in this "Granny" adventure .

We have learned that you may have to ask the questions differently in the preliminary talks, hoping to get a feeling for the importance of children for the Granny. Let's see if we can do this in the future. We remain confident and positive.

For this year we are growing together with Gisela and learn from and with each other. She is discovering our city with different eyes, which is an incredible enrichment for all of us and has a wonderful time with our boys.

Tomorrow we will set off for Germany and visit our Granny from 2017. She is looking forward to it and wrote to us "You can use my apartment and my garden. You may feel as much at home here as I did with you." This warms our hearts and we looking forward to seeing her again.

We thank you for your work.

Best wishes from Dublin, Ivonne R.

What a sweet idea!  Today a loyal Granny Aupair Family sent us this photo (on the right). Seven years lie betwen the left, from our website, and the one on the right.

"Hello Mrs Hansen, we saw the post with our picture on FB and as Granny Elke is just visiting us in Dubai as every year, we thought it would be an amusing idea to reconstruct the photo. Our Grannies are part of our family and visit us regularly and are loving temporary Grannies for Coco! Thank you for this great idea! Best wishes from Dubai."

How time flies! We say THANK YOU for this great photo idea and the kind words.

Dear Mrs Hansen,
do you remember me, I have been at Granny Aupair since 2011. It seems that I have arrived at my last family, as I will be 80 in December.
After Lausanne, Tirol, Austria, Brussels, Munich, Washington D.C., USA I have now been in Victoria, Vancouver Island B.C. Canada since June 2017. The island is absolutely beautiful, living near the Pacific Ocean is wonderful. I will be staying here until the end of this year and then probably cease my stays abroad. But I do not want to do so without saying goodbye to you and your team and thank you for the placements. Nearly 10 years and 7 countries. I have got to know many lovely things, interesting people and loveable children  and am so thankful for this.

Best wishes

Lily

My first Granny stay took me to Scotland in winter. It was a great experience, a nice family with three small children and cold.Next came the call from a host family in the warm Phoenix, Arizona.  They were looking for support for their two boys (2,5 and 7 years). We quickly came to an agreement via Skype and I flew off with light luggage - at the temperatures in my host country you only needed shorts and tops. I was lovingly welcomed by “my” family and immersed in everyday life in America. All the clichés were fulfilled for me. Picking up the older son from the yellow school bus, daily driving on the five-lane highway, trips into the great outdoors, campfires with marshmallows, pancakes for breakfast and so on. At “half time” I travelled three days to Las Vegas and to the Grand Canyon on my own.
In the autumn we visited Utah's  National Parks. I got to know many new people and things I have would have never experienced on a normal holiday. The three months went past much too quickly and the farewell from the family and the dog were very moving.

Let's see where my next Granny mission will take me. Maybe to Australia. :)

Best wishes
Birthe