When my husband and I first moved to Arizona we didn’t know a soul here. We had three elementary aged kids at the time. Everything we did was as a family, in other words there was no escaping our children. We are very protective of who we let our kids be around so we had no baby sitter. As time went on we became close to a few neighbors and friends through church that we could depend on to baby sit when necessary.
Fast forward 6 years and we have a 1 and a 3 year old. We have a lot of friends with kids around the same ages so we can sometimes swap babysitting. We also have to most Fantastic, Responsible, Caring, Sweet, teenage babysitter. She LOVES our boys!
I have heard stories from other mom’s of sitters ignoring kids, wrecking the house, or just doing enough to get by but not my sitter. I can’t express what a blessing it is to have someone you can trust with your kids; someone who know’s their personalities, and understands and adhere’s to your standard for feeding your kids (food allergies included). She plays and interacts with our boys!
Yesterday I mentioned date nights. Six years ago when we had date nights it consisted of making dinner for the kids, turning on a movie for them, threatening them not to bother us, then taking our meal to our bedroom’s “date night table” for our dinner. Now we can go to dinner, a movie, some shopping if we are up to it or whatever else we want to do.
Now that it is summer break she is available during the day too. Our sitter watches kids for other families as well. I can only imagine that she is a blessing to them as well.
I’m so grateful for her! What are you grateful for today?
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