Jessica M.

We were visiting Maui with our 20-month-old and wanted to hire a sitter for an evening so we can enjoy a dinner date night out. We are so grateful we found Jessica and only wish we could bring her to California! It was incredible how quickly our daughter took to Jessica. The second she walked in, my daughter immediately warmed up to her. Jessica truly has a gift with children. I was really (pleasantly) surprised to see how well my daughter did with her! My daughter is typically a stage 5 clinger, but she didn't cry for mama when Jessica was around and engaging her. I overheard some of the conversation and she was saying "are we listening to the birds?" and pointing to her ear, so she was very much trying to engage my daughter in conversation that was educational. She is in tune with the learning capacity of children of this age which was really nice. I gave ourselves a 30 min buffer for the two of them to get along, and well, it took all of 15 minutes before my daughter was climbing in the stroller and going outside with her new friend. And, we got to enjoy our dinner date out at Mama's and it was so nice not to have to run after our girl and enjoy a little date night, just the two of us. We received photo text messages throughout the evening with updates, which was reassuring. The best one I got was one at 6:30pm saying she was down - hooray. I did not think she'd sleep for her at all, but again, the gift with kids. My daughter's sleep was off while we were in Maui so it's no fault of Jessica that our baby woke up, but she was calmly in Jessica's arms when we got home. I cannot recommend her enough and anyone on vacation seeking a nanny in Maui should contact Jessica. Jessica is just wonderful and we are so appreciative of her time with our girl!!