WOW! You guys pay good! I pay my sitters what I got paid when I sat; $3.00 an hour! Or, sometimes we have a sitter come over after our son goes to bed at arounf 9:00 while we go out dancing. We usually don't gewt home until around 2 or 3 a.m. so we just pay $20 for the night.
Review your travel periodically. Generally, Global Services members attain elite Mileage Plus status. The top level in the Mileage Plus program requires a 100,000 annual mileage minimum. A Global Services invitation will arrive if you become one of United's best customers. Frequent international travel in paid first class or business class offers a better opportunity to reach Global Services status.
As long as you collect points with your card at least once a year your elite status miles are intact. Even when you obtain status those miles are carried over, meaning after you reach gold status you need to collect 16,000 miles to reach top tier status and not the full 20,000. From that point you have one year to collect 16,000 miles or else your miles will start expiring.