{"id":4773,"date":"2012-10-18T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/2012\/10\/18\/moms-best-friend-named-national-agency-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:43:16","slug":"moms-best-friend-named-national-agency-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/2012\/10\/18\/moms-best-friend-named-national-agency-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom&#8217;s Best Friend Named National Agency of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/?attachment_id=436\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AgencyYearSealMBF-tightcrop.jpg\" alt=\"Nanny Agency of the Year\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright rotatecw size-full wp-image-436\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I had such a wonderful, productive weekend when I attended the Association of Premier Nanny Agencies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theapna.org\">APNA<\/a>) annual conference this past weekend! It is my second year on the APNA board, and I so enjoy the camaraderie and collaboration in this industry. At the conferences, I always learn so much from my colleagues, and we always find great ideas to improve the experience of our client families and our caregivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The cherry on top this year was being named Agency of the Year by my peers. What a privilege! I truly want to thank all of our families, caregivers and staff for making this such a wonderful agency to own. When I started Mom&#8217;s Best Friend out of my home over 18 years ago, I dreamed about the agency it would become, and it has FAR exceeded my expectations!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This year has been so special because we have been able to use the business to make a positive impact not only through the nanny\/family placements, but also abroad through our partnership with Africa New Life. I wanted to share the Mom&#8217;s Best Friend video entitled &#8220;Caring for Children Near and Far&#8221; that was presented at the conference.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had such a wonderful, productive weekend when I attended the Association of Premier Nanny Agencies (APNA) annual conference this past weekend! It is my second year on the APNA board, and I so enjoy the camaraderie and collaboration in this industry. At the conferences, I always learn so much from my colleagues, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,54,142,229,230,49,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa-new-life","category-apna-meeting","category-charitable-giving","category-nanny-agency-associations","category-nanny-agency-leadership","category-nanny-industry","category-nanny-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}