Full Time Weekend Family Nanny
Hinsdale, IL –Winnetka, IL
January, 2022- Present
Responsibilities:
•
This is a family who had four young children under the age
of 5 when I started. I work Thurs/Fri-Sun/Mon to help support Mom and other
household staff in caring for the children, following routines, preparing
meals, doing light laundry and pick-up in the house. We enjoy playing together,
doing art and music, cooking, reading and time spent outside. The parent is a
widow and has a very full schedule and so it is my responsibility to keep the
house running and the children happy and well cared for. I have also had full
charge of the children when their Mom travels for longer periods of time and
have spent weeks down at their home in Sea Island, Georgia as well.
Part-time Family Nanny
Mishawaka, IN
October, 2021 –December, 2021
Responsibilities:
• This is a family with twin infant girls. I work 28 hours a week taking care of the babies while their parents work. This is a temporary position helping fill in while they wait for a daycare option to open up. I feed, dress, play with, change diapers, sing and comfort babies doing everything needed for them during the time I am there. I also do light housekeeping such as cleaning/preparing bottles, and help folding/organizing clothes. When their two-year-old sister is at home from daycare I also play with her.
Family Nanny
Goshen, IN
August, 2021 –January, 2022
Responsibilities:
• This is a family with four young boys (12, 10, 8 and 5) whose father died of cancer a year ago. I work 40 hours a week –mostly evenings and overnights on weekends –to help support the Mom. I cook, bake, clean, do laundry, play sports, read, do art, music, help with homework, organize the house and simply spend time together.
Stavole Family Nanny
South Bend, IN
August, 2020 –August, 2021
Responsibilities:
• This is a family with a 14-month-old when I started, and with a baby sister added after two months. I take care of both children full-time, including dressing, feeding, sleep schedules, reading, crafts, music, playing and enjoying long walks to the park. I also help with kitchen dishes and laundry.
Miller
Family Day and Night Nanny for Infant Twins
Goshen, IN
December, 2019-August 2020
Responsibilities:
• I cared for
infant twins for 9-10 hours during the night hours as needed. I made formula,
fed, diapered and rocked them and helped them to sleep. I also have helped them during the day when
they were too sick for day care or when their day care was closed -helping full time during Co-Vid 19.
Kloska
Family Nanny
Bristol, IN
September, 2019 –March, 2020
Responsibilities:
• This is a
family with 10 children between the ages of 15 and 5 months. The mother
homeschools. I work two mornings a week primarily helping with the three
youngest children (3, 2 and 5 months). I do simple pre-school papers, reading,
crafts, music, playing and enjoying long walks to the park. I also help the older
children, on occasion, with their schoolwork.
Benoit
Family Nanny (with both natural and foster children)
Niles, MI
September, 2019 –March, 2020
Responsibilities:
• At times I helped them full time and other times I worked only 1-2 10
hour days caring for their three children (who are 5, 2.5 and 8
months old). I help to homeschool the oldest boy and provide pre-school
activities for the 2.5 year-old-old girl. I do simple school, crafts, go to
parks, play, read, light housekeeping and meals. I also care for their 4-year-old foster child, as well as other foster
children when they have a placement.
Downey Family Nanny
Granger, IN
September, 2019
Responsibilities:
• This is a family with 8 children between the ages of 13 and 18 months. The mother homeschools. I work one morning a week primarily helping with the three youngest children (5, 3 and 18 months). I do simple pre-school papers, reading, crafts, baking, music, playing and long walks outside. I also spend time on occasion with the older children doing crafts or playing (sometimes teaching) guitar.
Comeau Family Nanny
Mishawaka, IN
September, 2019 –November, 2019
Responsibilities:
• I work 18
hours a week helping with the famiy’s 6 children between the ages of
2-13-years-old. I help with cleaning, laundry, meals, driving, playing
(including crafts), bathing and bedtime routines. The children lost their
father to cancer in January of 2019 and I am just a physical, emotional and
spiritual support to them and their mother.
Night and
Day Nanny for Newborn Triplets (Mathew Family)
Chicago, IL (Streeterville area)
August, 2018-July, 2019
Responsibilities:
• I worked 80
hours a week as a night/morning and then day nanny for newborn triplets. I had
care of them alone, providing love and for all of their needs, including
rocking, diapering, bathing, feeding, playing with them, etc.; My job also
included work such as making all formula (even in advance for all times I
wouldn’t be there), cleaning bottles, organizing and laundering clothes/bed
sheets/towels, etc, emptying dishwasher and diaper pail, keeping a log of the
children’s schedules, diapers and food intake and helping them learn to sleep.
St.
Joseph’s Children’s Home
East Chicago, IN
March/April 2017
Responsibilities:
·
I volunteered with their abused/abandoned babies a handful of
times. They wanted to hire me but I could not find housing nearby.
Schmidt
Family Night Nanny
Elkhart, IN
6 months
Responsibilities:
·
I spent about 6 months helping a friend with night-care of her
adopted newborn twin grandbabies -they were sickly and on heart and breathing
monitoring machines. In her 70's she and her husband received full custody of
them and were exhausted -so I would come from about 5 until after midnight so
she could get some rest.
Family
Nanny
South Bend, IN
Three times over seven years
Responsibilities:
·
I also was the full-time caregiver (on and off) for 5 young children as their father struggled with
cancer 3 times over 7 years. I fully ran their home –food preparation, laundry,
driving, school help, everything that their Mom/Dad would have been doing for
them. I lived with them (overnight) during this time.
Diocesan
Hermit of Crucified Love Diocese of Fort Wayne -South Bend
Elkhart, IN
August 2011 to August 2014
Responsibilities:
·
A life of primarily prayer with increased silence/solitude, but
including welcoming those seeking spiritual support/counsel, as well as
children.
Mission
Work and Hermit Life -all over the world
Siberia, Russia, Poland, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Israel,
England, Ireland, Bosnia, Italy, France, Mexico, the Philippines
August 2003 to August 2011
Responsibilities:
•Prisons
• troubled teens
•homeless
•victims of concentration camps
•orphans
•street children
•retreats (for children, women, seminarians, parishes, young
people)
•conferences and individual counsel for priests and religious
sisters
•childcare
•prayer ministry in areas of violence
•spiritual counsel
•prayer
meetings
•hosting AA
groups and pantomime theater
• pro-life work
• family formation
• pilgrimages
•cleaning
•rehabilitating street women
•deliverance ministry
• normal mission upkeep (includes pretty much anything needed from
doctoring simple wounds, gardening, cooking, braiding hair, playing sports to
'make-do' plumbing problems) and simply loving those who nobody loved.
•Also time was spent studying (and teaching) Theology and
Languages.
Upendo Children’s Home
Moshi, Tanzania
September –October 2010
Responsibilities:
• Changing clothes/diapers, feeding,
playing with, soothing –complete care for infants/toddlers (usually up to 10-15
children at a time, often alone.)
St. Joseph’s Hospital for Chronically Ill Children
Capetown, South Africa
November, 2010
Responsibilities:
• Changing clothes/diapers, feeding,
playing with, soothing infants/toddlers;
• Organizing closets/clothes, odd
cleaning, chores and food preparation with the sisters
Open Arms Orphanage for Children
Kumga South Africa
December 2010 –January 2011
Responsibilities:
• Sports, art, playing with, baking,
gardening, teaching, personal interaction with all of the children (including
outings to the store, plays, movies, etc.,) ages newborn- around 13-years-old.
Founder of Catholic Mission -Eastern Siberia
Society of Our Lady of the
Most Holy Trinity/ in Diocese of St. Joseph/Irkutsk
Krasnoyarsk and Kansk, Russia
May 2001 to May 2003
Responsibilities:
My time
was spent in a myriad of ways:
•simple
catechesis
•work with
youth
• retreats
•
establishing AA meetings
• pro-life
work
• homeless
ministry
•
traveling up to 7 or 8 hours to visit Catholics
•The
people we served were either themselves or children of those sent to the gulags
many years ago. The older babushki simply needed visitors and many children of
the streets simply needed love. I returned on a month visa yearly for about 7
years to visit these friends.
Volunteer Teacher 6th-8th Grades
St. Anthony’s School
Robstown, TX
August 2000 to June 2001
Responsibilities:
•I taught
Math, Science, Literature and Religion to 6th, 7th and 8th Grade students. This
was a very poor school in a border town and the classes were small with half of
the children I had having learning disabilities and so I was told to 'modify'
their work. I was given room and board nearby and paid a small stipend. I also
spent the weekends visiting Youth City (a juvenile prison) nearby to teach
Sunday School.
Volunteer
Teacher Youth City Jail (a juvenile prison)
Robstown, TX
August 2000 to June 2001
Responsibilities:
·
I also spent the weekends visiting Youth City (a juvenile prison)
nearby to teach Sunday School.
Wood Stacker
American Millwork Factory
Elkhart, IN
May 1996 to August 1999
Responsibilities:
• I only
worked the summers of 1996, 1997, 1998 and briefly 1999 (I did simple
accounting/paper work the latter summer in an office). The manual labor was
stacking 8'-16' 2x4's and sometimes grading the wood for molding.
Infant and Toddler Caregiver
Child Abuse Prevention Center
Elkhart, IN
September 1993 to December 1998
Responsibilities:
• I was in
charge of caring for all of the infants and toddlers while their parents were
in parenting classes. For the last hour of the session I facilitated a parent/child
interaction activity.
Hostess/Waitress
Harry's Restaurant
Edwardsburg, MI
June 1996 to August 1996
Responsibilities:
•Hostessing and waiting tables
Golf Camp Counselor
Notre Dame, IN
University of Notre Dame Golf
Camp
July 1995 to July 1995
Responsibilities:
•I was a camp counselor who had to be
on-site to supervise the visiting female campers.
Housekeeper, Maid
Holiday Inn
Elkhart, IN
June 1995 to August 1995
Responsibilities:
•I cleaned hotel rooms.
Merchandiser/Sales
321 Interior Design
Elkhart, IN
September 1991 to August 1995 -(I continued to work on all of my
breaks during my time at Notre Dame as well (1995-1999).)
Responsibilities:
• A small
business owner of an Interior Design store hired me to come in after school,
weekends and breaks to help run the store for her. I stocked and priced
high-end interior decorating items, helped people choose gifts and with simple
interior decorating, gift-wrapped, cashier work and simple accounting for her
books.
Golf Camp Counselor
University of Notre Dame Golf Camp
Notre Dame, IN
July 1995 to July 1995
Responsibilities:
•I was a
camp counselor who had to be on-site to supervise the visiting female campers.
CCD Teacher
St. Thomas Parish
Elkhart, IN
August 1993 to May 1995
Responsibilities:
• (The
dates may be off) -I developed and taught a Preschool CCD program for young
children on Sunday mornings.
Corn Detasseler
Elkhart County, IN
June 1993 to August 1993
Responsibilities:
•I rode on
large machinery and picked tassels from corn.
EDUCATION
BA in Theology (concentrated in Philosophy, Russian and Italian
studies as well).
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
AWARDS
Elkhart Young Woman of the Year
May 1998
I was nominated by Child Abuse Prevention Services (where I worked
throughout High School) for this award for being an exceptional example of
service.
Links
A helpful summary of my life can be
found here:
http://fiatlove.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-sister-hermit.html
http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2011/09/mary-kloska-is-first-hermit-in-diocese/
Additional Information
My name is Mary. I am 43 years old and was
raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of
foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. I presently have
70+ nieces and nephews, most of whom live close to our family ‘headquarters’,
so children are simply part of my life. In addition to family and plenty of
outside babysitting, I worked for 5 years at Child Abuse Prevention Services
supervising infants and toddlers and helping in child/parent interaction. They
nominated me for our city’s ‘Young Woman of the Year.’ I’ve lived a very unique
life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 I spent almost 20 years in the
missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a
consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa,
Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. These included
Upendo Children's Home, Moshi Tanzania; St. Joseph's Hospital, Capetown South
Africa; Open Arms, Kumga South Africa; orphanages in Poland and Russia and lots
and lots of street children (including those living the trash dumps of 'Smoky
Mountain' in the Philippines). I also spent quite some time caring for my
friend's small babies/children in Poland. Although I spent a lot of time away
in silence praying, ironically I love children and am very fun and outgoing
when it comes to the little ones. My sister wrote an article on my life that
explains me well: http://fiatlove.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-sister-hermit.html
Infants and toddlers are my specialty, although
I have experience with children of all ages, cultures and socioeconomic
backgrounds. I volunteer taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade for one year in South
Texas, including children with disabilities. I developed and taught a
Pre-school CCD program at a church as well as taught Sunday school to troubled
teens at a juvenile prison. I also was the full-time caregiver (on and off) of
my brother's 5 young children as he struggled with cancer 3 times over 7 years.
And I spent about 6 months helping a friend with night-care of her adopted newborn
twin grandbabies -they were sickly and on heart and breathing monitoring
machines. I was volunteering at a Home for Abandoned Babies and Children the
past few months and they offered to hire me full-time, yet I could not find
safe housing nearby (they lived in a very dangerous area.) I have spent the
last year working 80 hours a week as a night and day nanny for newborn
triplets. My entire life has been with small children.
I am a very clean person (which made the
missions difficult at times) and prefer organization, although I am flexible,
patient and laid-back, especially with children. Love was always my rule. I
speak Russian and Polish pretty well after spending 2 years in Eastern Siberia
and many years back and forth from Poland. I studied Italian at Notre Dame and
so when I find myself in Italian company I usually understand. I understand
Spanish and could pick it up again rather quickly. Languages come and go for me
–when I lived in Africa I picked up the Bantu languages and Swahili. When I
lived with the French I was able to communicate. And pretty much any Slavic
language I understand. I love to paint, especially icons. I love to cook and
bake, although I rarely follow recipes exactly. Because good doctors and
medicines were rarely available all of those years I learned quite a bit about
natural remedies and herbs. I garden, play guitar and always have a book.
Usually I read Theology, although I enjoy the Classics. I write (especially on
spiritual topics or about the experiences I've encountered) -most of it was
published simply on our family blog or shared one-to-one with those interested.
And I love to be outside, especially exercising –this time I use to really think
and pray. My heart is very sensitive, especially to anyone suffering. These are
all parts of my life that I share with the children around me (crafts, reading,
singing, outdoors, baking, etc.) My approach with children tends to be the
attachment parenting style –babies cry because they need something. I don’t
ever remember not being able to calm a crying child. In fact, sometimes parents
would give me their children when they were upset because ‘Aunt Mary’ has ‘her
way.’