Babysitter

Up until now, the only babysitter the Critter has known has been family. Specifically, my MIL and SIL. Which in some ways has been great - I mean, free babysitting? Who can complain?

Umm, I guess I can. I'm gonna complain right now, because yes, I am that ungrateful person.

I love my MIL, but we are very different people. We come from very different backgrounds, and have led very different lives. She cannot be on time if her life depended on it, while I am a 5-minutes-early-IS-on-time kind of girl. This does not go well with a babysitter. She doesn't ever really give a straight answer, preferring talk around things and ends up off topic in the end. While I am direct, perhaps too much so. Again, not a good babysitter match.

So I am looking for a new, regularly scheduled babysitter. I haven't told my MIL, she'd be heartbroken. But once a week, on a regularly scheduled day and time (something my MIL could never seem to commit to), I am getting someone to come in for a few hours. So I can shop, run errands, have lunch by myself (ahhh! that sounds sooo nice), whatever. Heck, even blog!!

I posted a listing on a popular sitter website, and got a ton of responses - like 23 people in 24 hours. I culled those down to 3, of which 2 are coming for in-person meeting today. They are both grad students at local schools, and are looking for a little extra income themselves.

Fingers crossed one of them works out!!

And shhhh, don't tell my MIL.