I (mother) am American, moved to Zurich 10 years ago for a job, met my husband and we have been married for 5 years. My husband is German but born in Switzerland near Baden. I am starting a new job on Sept 1, 2011 after taking a 4 year leave to raise my daughter. My husband owns his own company in Zurich. Our daughter is 4 years old and is the love of our life. She is very creative, funny, curious and learns very quickly. English is her mother tongue however she is now starting to speak more german with her father. She is attending kindergarten 4 days a week at a local school that is 5 minutes from our home. She is a very social child, loves to talk to people and is always smiling. We are a fun loving family who enjoys sports, traveling and working on our new home that we just finished building in December 2010. Out family is very important to us, we have much support from my husbands family in Switzerland and my family visits 2 times a year from America. We are concerned about the transition for our daughter from me being a stay at home mother to now being a full time working mother. She loves school and acclimated to it quite easily so we hope this will be the same with our new situation.

We are searching for someone who can work mainly afternoon and early evening hours as our daughter is in school 4.5 days per week. We need help picking her up from school, taking her to swimming and dance classes on her off school days and possibly some weekend nights. We will need full coverage for some school holidays when both of the parents are working, this would require full days for the holiday period. We would like help with light housekeeping, mainly picking up after our daughter and some laundry. We have a weekly cleaning person as well. We would need help during the weekdays to start dinner and possibly run some errands such as grocery shopping or other minor things. Our daughter is very creative and we would like someone who can help her to express her creativity and support her language skills . We offer 5 weeks of vacation and have a holiday home in the mountains that we travel to for skiing and hiking. We have a newly built home with a guest suite (private entrance, full bath, bedroom and living room with TV and computer).