Why can't I find anyone to watch my kids Friday night?
Our dear friend 'Uncle Buck' is coming into town this weekend and is way excited to have a night out where he can impart his "wisdom" upon Tim and I and anyone who will listen. The plan is that I will pick him up from the airport and we will go and meet Tim and my aunt at Hackney's where we can tell family stories, laugh and drink scotch. The fatal flaw in this scenario is that I have these two amazing kids who will not last past 7:30, nor will they be able to tolerate the cigarette smoke that surrounds an outing with Uncle Buck.
Usually when Tim and I go out my mom watches the kids. If she were in town this would not be the case as she would be a part of this fete, so I would have to default to my mother in law. Since it is "boating season" she will not be available to us, only to her estranged husband (remind me to tel you about the tech support call Tim had last week) while she clutches to the shreds of her dysfunctional marriage. So then we have to go to the second string.
The useless high school girl we have sit is out of town, her friend is busy, and the 3 other potential babysitters who I call when we are in a pinch have yet to return my calls (ever). There has to be a mildly responsible teenager somewhere in suburbia who can give my kids the provided Happy Meals and make sure they get in their beds before 9pm, right? Apparently I am wrong.
I have one option that I am contemplating- asking my friend Bridezilla to do it. The fatal flaw there is that she is a nurse who works nights and it is her one night off in a string of 12 hour shifts. I feel bad asking her to do that, but I will, and she will say no, and I can't be mad because it is not like she doesn't have a valid excuse for not wanting to do it.
So I guess I have to take the kids with. Seeing as my aunt is not a ton of fun and won't stay out really late I was kind of hoping that she would take the girls home and tuck them in after dinner so that Tim and I can stay out, but she is rather "thorny" as my grandmother called her, and that is not really an option. So either Tim or I will have to fall on the sword and bail on a night out. Since I don't have it in me to listen to Tim's bullshit it will probably be me.
I guess I didn't need to spend my Saturday hung over anyway.
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2 comments:
Have you tried www.sittercity.com?
I looked at it once and it seemed like it had a lot of good options. There is something a teensy bit scary about meeting a babysitter on the web, but if they had references available and stuff, I'd do it.
How are you feeling about being married now? Did the feeling pass you by yet? I think everyone feels that way once in a while.
i've also heard good things about sittercity. hangovers suck, but if you're feeling brave enough to try to parent 2 little ones hungover, perhaps you can brave an internet sitter? = )
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