Perhaps I’m just in a bad mood. I don’t know. I really don’t think it has anything to do with my mood and more to do with people doing stupid things.

I am speaking specifically about my babysitter. Who is giving Jaxon a bath as we speak.

I get a Blue Care babysitter once a week for four hours. I pay $5 for the service, which is government run. I get this service because I have no family to help out every now and then. So I sort of feel like I don’t have the right to say anything about this.

Recently Blue Care has been changing the way it utilizes it’s staff. This means that the lady we’ve been getting since Jaxon was 8 months old no longer works our area. It also means that each and every week for the last 3 months we’ve had a new lady come to care for him.

Blue Care normally look after the elderly. They go to their home’s and help them shop, or clean, or make sure they take medication. They do shower’s and wound dressings, that sort of thing. Jaxon is the only baby/toddler they have on their books.

I can’t talk on behalf of the elderly people who get these services, but I’m finding it really hard to get a new person each and every week. It means that an hour of my four hours is used up making sure they know where everything is, what to feed Jaxon and when to do it and making sure that I trust them enough to leave them alone with him. It’s hard for Jaxon too. He really loved his regular carer and now he doesn’t know the person that comes to care for him when they walk through the door.

I’ve gone off on a bit of a tangent there. It’s the last three ladies I want to call stupid people.

The first, a younger girl, spent most of her four hours on her mobile phone. She gave him a bottle that was 6 hours old. And no solid meals at all. When she put him down for his nap she didn’t put his cot rail up. Is that not common sense??

Last weeks lady took him to the park for THREE hours. She didn’t put suntan lotion on him. He got very burnt on his arms and legs. Not to mention that in that three hours he didn’t get given anything to eat or drink. When he got home it was time for his nap but he was too hungry too sleep and too tired to eat.

And this weeks lady, the one in my home right now. Well. I normally stay home but stay in separate parts of the house. Unless I have to go out. It happens that today I had to go out. She had taken him to the park at the end of the street. As I drove by I saw our pram sitting at the play ground, no Jaxon. No blue care lady. As I drove around the corner I found them at the toilet block. Half a BLOCK from my pram. And you know why? Because the Blue Care staff are not allowed to use the toilet’s in clients homes. So they ALL use this set of toilets. This lady had left my pram in the middle of nowhere, couldn’t even see it much less know if it’s still there…because she and Jaxon were having a social visit with friends from work.

I slowed down as I drove by, not sure exactly what I should do. The chances of the pram actually being stolen are low, but you never know. And although the pram was a gift, replacing it would cost us $500 or more. If it was stolen would THEY cover that cost? I think not.

So I stopped and walked over. I didn’t bother with small talk. I simply said “I’m not sure I appreciate you leaving my $500 pram in a park that you’re no longer in” She seemed shocked. I don’t know if she was more shocked that I had the ball’s to come and say it, or that I’d said it in front of her work mates. I don’t care. She said “Oh, do you keep it with him?” Are you kidding me?? Would you leave your car in the middle of nowhere unlocked with the keys in it when you were going to be away from it? When you couldn’t see it. No, you wouldn’t.

I’m just a little bit over these stupid woman being sent in to my home to do a job that to me is the most important thing in the world. I want responsible people. I’ve called and requested that we be given the same lady each week. I don’t care if it’s not the lady Jaxon really likes, as long as it’s the same person each week. But I don’t think my request was taken very seriously since that was 2 months ago.

As I said before, I pay very little for this service. And up until the shit hit the fan at Blue Care the service was one that I could never have faulted in a million years. I’d love to just say “you know what, don’t bother” but this four hours is like heaven to me. It’s the only time in my week when I get to say “haaaaaa.” It’s the only time when I get to not worry about anything but myself.