Christine S.

My 17-month-old son has been under Christy's full time care for over a year now. And he loves being there! Christy cares for my son like he was her own; she is a wonderful person and an excellent nanny. She is extremely flexible & willing to work with difficult schedules. She is also experienced with equipment such as nebulizers, which my son uses from time to time due to asthma. Christy respects parenting styles & will take your wishes into account. She also will help reinforce manners. And my son loves the meals provide by Christy. I highly recommend Christy!

Christy previously watched my two daughters full-time. Christy's daycare has a perfect combination of home and education in one. She has organized her home in a way to allow the children to freely explore and learn, and in a safe environment. Christy has many years of experience with all ages of children. That truly shows by her interaction with the children and her sense of good quality development for them. She also focuses on encouraging good behavior, manners and nutritional eating. Christy is open to feedback from the parents and will incorporate their individual needs into her schedule. She is extremely flexible and was always able to work with the time/date needs of our family. Christy's daycare is great place to take your child!

Christy has been taking care of my first grader on occasion for the last several years, and I must say that she is always my first choice. My daughter LOVES playing dress-up in Christy's toy room and doing projects. I would have to say that the best thing about Christy's house, is that my daughter feels loved and cherished there. Every day, whether it's for an hour, or for an overnight when I have to travel for work, Christy writes a journal to tell me about my daughter's day. She reinforces manners and sportsmanship, and helps my daughter work through social circumstances she would otherwise struggle with as an only child. She is patient and kind, and does her best to instill these qualities in my child, too. Christy has always been very respectful of my wishes regarding many subjects ranging from discipline to food choices. She pays attention to any unique concerns I have and provides feedback when I ask her. I feel truly blessed to have her to rely on.

I had my daughter under her care. At first it was evenings only and Christy was great. Then it went to full days when a daycare had a hard time adapting to the food allergy. Christy took my child full time, knowing that it may go back to part time if I found a daycare for socialization which would be back to our original arrangement. You can imagine my shock when I found a daycare that could accommodate the allergy (Which was actually closer to Christy's house), and she stated she could no longer watch my daughter as she had in the evenings only, that it wasn't going to work to pick her up with her taking more kids!!. The situation very quickly deteriorated, where it was extremely awkward to pick up my child at her house. As a single parent I felt stranded without ample back up care and had to scramble to get other things in place, when Christy knew the terms of what I needed for work being new moving up here, and that part of my accepting a position was based on her being available so that I had an evening care provider. She also knew at the time that she took my daughter originally that there may be more kids she would be watching, that she would need to balance this with picking up my daughter. I would not recommend her unless you want potentially your daycare situation terms changed mid-course at her discretion, regardless of what you originally agree upon. We also had an unaccounted for event happen. I'm not stating it came from Christy's--but she was never able to explain how it happened between drop off at the daycare and pick up at her place. Christy was late one time picking my daughter up from daycare, where it was after hours for them, fortunately we weren't charged extra. One outfit was destroyed in an art project at her house that was the first time she had worn it, that came from a high end child boutique out state, and couldn't be replaced. To Christy's credit, she did go out and replace it with another cheaper outfit almost immediately when she knew I was upset the outfit had been ruined. She had good references when I called them, but this situation ended in a disaster.

Christy is an excellent Nanny. She has been working for us occasionally for the last 5 years since my son was born. She is always punctual, very respectful of my rules and she is very patient. Days with Christy are filled with fun, crafts and imagination. Christy brings creativity and excitement to my home, yet she is firm with discipline when needed. Christy is patent, kind and loving. She is good at preparing meals. Occasionally she has brought her children with her. This was not a problem because her girls are older, friendly and very helpful. Even though they were there my son was still the priority. Christy loves her job and it shows.