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"Mondays are HARD in our little household. Emmett&amp;#039;s best friend comes over bright and early and the nanny starts their day in our apartment.  Rory, who is generally a frazzled person, is extra-frazzled after the weekend, so he goes back and forth (and back and forth and back and forth) through our five rooms, and every time he drops out of Emmett&amp;#039;s line of vision, Emmett flips out. I&amp;#039;m trying to get my day started (making Emmett&amp;#039;s meals for the day, packing his diaper bag, and, um, doing my work) while the nanny tries to drink her coffee and wrangle two kids. After two days of maximum daddy time, Emmett gets extra-upset when Rory leaves: screaming, clinging, and crying so hard that he coughs and hiccups. He doesn&amp;#039;t want the nanny, he doesn&amp;#039;t want me. He just wants his daddy, who is late for work. When I leave 15 minutes later, I make a big show of hugging Emmett goodbye and telling him I love him, but he doesn&amp;#039;t even look up from his board book.  The rational part of me knows that Emmett loves both of his parents\u2014at least I hope he does\u2014but it&amp;#039;s really, really hard that 10 times out of 10, he would rather be with Rory. Especially now that the nanny&amp;#039;s starting full-time. At least before I had two full mommy-n-me days where I could try to win his favor. I feel like I&amp;#039;m already the second-place grown-up in his life, but now I&amp;#039;m worried the nanny&amp;#039;s going to slide into the No. 2 spot and I&amp;#039;ll get bumped down to No. 3. I know I can&amp;#039;t keep doing what I&amp;#039;ve been doing: Working &amp;#039;til 3 a.m. every night just so I can spend Tuesdays and Thursdays with Emmett. (And I certainly can&amp;#039;t stop working.)  Having the nanny five days a week felt like the best thing for our family, but now I&amp;#039;m so overwhelmed with guilt that I feel like I&amp;#039;m going to puke. How do I shake this horrible feeling?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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