Our date night was a success!

[idoinjuly]

I was so nervous about leaving the kids with a babysitter because DD is so attached to me and won't let anyone do anything for her, especially put her to bed. They loved the sitter (who has been dd's swim teacher all summer). DS even went to her and sat in her lap WHILE WE WERE STILL HOME! They played and painted and watched Tangled. She put them to bed with no problem

We had a blast. Saw a good band and had lots of drinks with our friends.

I'm so glad we found this girl!

[drrn04]

I'm glad you guys had a good time! And what a relief that everything went smoothly with the sitter. I think kids sometimes give us, as parents, a hard time just because they know they can, but get their acts together for someone different.

So, when's your next date night?

[idoinjuly]

I actually asked her to babysit for us again in two weeks!

[nahoku]

Awesome! I totally agree with dotandbuzz. And I'm crossing my fingers that things go as well for us in a couple weeks when we have a new babysitter come watch the kids.

[idoinjuly]

Good luck nahoku!

I agree too. DD has really been working me over with the guilt the last few months. I decided enough is enough and have been mildly practicing some tough love over the past month or so, like leaving her with my inlaws here and there. I've been more matter of fact with her, telling her that she will be fine, we only leave them with people that will take good care of her, and that we love them so much and will be back. I think it's really starting to help.

Honestly, I'm mainly using this babysitter so that she will get used to being in the care of other people. We have family who would babysit, but I want her to know that we arent the only people who can take good care of her. I want to make this babysitter a regular so that we can reinforce this with dd. DS is pretty easy so far, but feeds off of his sister's cues. If she cries when we leave, so does he.

[eb777888]

Awesome!!

[Deleted]

That's fantastic!!