Babysitters

So, I found a babysitter in the paper a couple of weeks ago. I called her, we met with her, she was willing to babysit the girls during the hours I needed her, and we agreed on an acceptable rate for the babysitting. So today, I took the girls their for their first time (without me, they came before to meet her). The girls did ok, MacKenzie was happy ot be there and playing with the other kids, and Kaylee was doing ok, just sitting there soaking it all up. So I left after making sure both girls were comfortable. I called from work at 6 p.m. to see how she was making out. She told me she didn't think she could handle the girls.

What ticks me off is that she is a fence away from running a subsidized day care (cause she doesn't have a fenced back yard), and she can't even handle a one and a two year old. She has her own kids, one is 6 and the other is 7 months. She worked for a day home (which has 12 kids and 2 adults), and she now runs her own day care? And she still can't take care of my kids. They aren't the hardest kids to look after.

So my opinion of her is that she just wants the free money from babysitting older kids who can play by themselves. All in all, I think I am glad that she doesn't want to babysit them with that attitude, but I am still stuck with finding someone to babysit the girls. It is so hard to find a babysitter who will go past 5 p.m., and babysit on a Friday evening. I don't want to have to quit working because we can't find a babysitter. We can finally afford to pay for one. And I only need them for 6 evenings a month.

We don't want to ask our family to help out anymore cause they have told us we have worn out our welcome for that. And then they complained that the only time that they got to see us is when we called them over to babysit. So now I am just not sure where to go. We don't want a student to come look after the girls in the evening, because they would have to make supper and feed the girls, plus take care of them at the same time. This would be too hard for a typical teenager. Plus we would have to have one that knows CPR. (MacKenzie seems to like choking on her food on occasion..she is just too busy to sit and chew).

This whole situation makes me just want to stay at home and run my own daycare so that I would know my kids are being taken care of properly. But I need the break from the mtoo sometimes.