Dawn Maas:  

Life I currently live in the San Francisco bay area. I moved out to northern California in January 1995 after the death of my grandmother. I recently found an amazing apartment in the east bay near Lake Merritt (Oakland) and I work in San Francisco near Golden Gate park with a little 4 month old Irish boy (whose older "sister" is a dog!). I've been a nanny for 21 years now (literally half of my life since I just turned 42) and I've loved almost every minute of it! (minus the 6 weeks earlier this year with the 10 month old twin girls...the girls were great, their mom was another story!) I now have 11 kids total (not including the twins) from 4 months old all the way up to 26 (& married for 3 years!). I'm looking forward to being a "grand-nanny" one of these days. I have two funny little "children" of my own...they're Chiweenies (miniature dachshund/chihuahua mix). Between the two of them they weigh just under 11 pounds. Murphy is a whopping 3.8 pounds and Sydney (the "little" sister) tips the scales at just under 7 pounds. Last year I rode in my second SF Pride parade with Dykes on Bikes (with the dogs of course!) What a riot!! This year will be parade ride number 3...on my new Piaggio MP3, three wheeled scooter. We're going to be dresse...Expand for more