Babysitter Success!

For the first time in their young lives, the kids had a "real" babysitter.  As in, someone who comes over to watch them when neither Mom nor Dad is there, who isn't related to said kids, and who gets paid real money before she leaves.

I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing that they haven't had a babysitter until now.  It's just what it is.  We are blessed to live near all the grandparents and Jmk's sister is always willing to help when we call on her.  Plus, we're just homebodies.  I mean, really.  We like being homebodies.  We just don't go out and do that much Stuff.  And, hey, it's good for the budget, too!

But, with the new baby coming, with all the grandparents working, with all the time that Jmk has had to take off from work during this pregnancy...  we just figured it's time to get them used to the process of how a babysitter works.  So, yesterday, I had a hair appointment and instead of bringing them with me, I decided to spend the extra money and get a precious girl from church to come watch them for a couple of hours.

And it went GREAT!!!  I had no worries about Poodle at all.  But, honestly, I was stressed about how Toot was going to handle it.  He has been so velcro-to-mommy lately.  Add to that worry was the fact that I ended up leaving before he even got up from his nap.  (He took a marathon nap yesterday).  I could just imagine the tears and fright and worry and all those things that moms imagine their kids go through, when in reality, they probably don't. Gabby said that he was a little weird when he woke up, but figured things out pretty quickly.  And when Jmk got home (he made it home before I did), Tooter was hugging on her leg and had already fallen in love with her.

I can not tell you what a relief it is to know that we have this option now.  We'll still be homebodies and we'll still do our best to take care of the kids ourselves.  But we can now say that we have a babysitter.  Hallelujah!!!