New York Nanny Center » relocation http://www.nynanny.com Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:35:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 One Month Down http://www.nynanny.com/family-2/one-month-down/ http://www.nynanny.com/family-2/one-month-down/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:44:41 +0000 Alison Gore http://www.luckylildarlings.com/?p=1545   Read more (...)]]> If you had told me a year ago how happy appliances would make me, I would have laughed in your face. Now, my favorite phrase is “I’m going downstairs to throw a load of laundry in the wash.” MY downstairs and MY washing machine; not the coin operated machine around the corner that the entire neighborhood uses that I have to strap my daughter on in a carrier to get to even if it’s pouring rain!  Don’t even get me started on the dishwasher and how easy bottles, pumping accessories and now baby food containers have become.  I am in heaven!!!!

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Parker & I are loving the new house

One month ago we moved from New York City to Washington, D.C. and it was the right move for us.  I am sure about this.  Having spent the last 15 years at least four hours away from my nearest relative, I am now three MINUTES away from my baby sister, her husband and their three pugs.  The majority of those 15 years were spent living in a basement apartment and now I have a basement in a town home with a deck big enough to fit patio furniture and a grill (the grill is my husband’s slice of heaven). Just steps away from our front door, our community has a tennis court and a pool where I have taken our daughter nearly every day this summer. Most fitness centers have child care available, there are movie theaters with “cry baby” matinees, wine bars with stroller happy hours, and there are so many strollers coming down the sidewalk that we take turns passing, just about every day Parker and I have a mommy & me activity with one of the many local mom groups or a play date with one of the lovely mom/dot duos we’ve met. I have become a SAHM, (that’s meet up lingo for Stay At Home Mom) and I’m loving it!! Yes, I will eventually have to return to work in some capacity, but for now I have been given the lovely gift of spending each day with my brand new baby girl in our brand new city and I am cherishing every one of them!  Granted, I am the oldest mom around since they start young here and we wait a while in NY, but I’m ok with that. I’m a happy AMA (advanced maternal age) mom!

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Sightseeing!

Moving here happened fast and meant leaving friends and my job and giving up the unique energy that can only be found in New York City; but it also meant being closer to family, seizing a fantastic career opportunity for my husband and achieving a quality of life for Parker that can only be found outside of the Big Apple. Yes, I’m sure it was the right move for us.

-Jolynn Baca Jaekel has been a fitness professional for more than a decade and just had her first child with husband Rob in January. She and her family just relocated from NYC to Washington D.C.  She returns to NYC next week to teach a FREE fitness class outside on the Hudson Pier (suitable for all fitness levels)…read more & register here.
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