We really don’t go out much, but randomly (like this past Monday and Tuesday night) we have things to do or we can actually coordinate our schedules and have a date night. Date night lately has only been once every 3 months. That’s not good. We are going to try and make sure we go to dinner once per month.
We just recently found 2 new babysitter options. The babysitter we had been using since Lola was a baby (a teacher from her school) moved further away from us. She doesn’t have a car which wasn’t a big deal when it took us 5 minutes to pick her up and 5 minutes to take her home, but we tried it once she moved and it was around 40 minutes EACH way! So if you do the math it was 1.25 hours round-trip to pick up and 1.25 hours round-trip to take home. 2.5 hours out of our day when we barely have any time together as it is! We also had another gal who used to teach at the girls’ school but she is super busy and we can’t ever seem to coordinate our schedules any more. So we had to look elsewhere. Ryan’s niece babysat for us on Monday night when we had a charity event to attend. She lives in Parkville but is going to school at Penn Valley and is looking to move closer. If she does we will use her a lot! Lola really loves her. The second gal has babysat for close friends of ours, and her parents are my friend’s neighbor (follow me?). She is a pre-school teacher at UMKC’s child care facility, and she is getting her masters at UMKC. UMKC is literally a block from us, and she only lives a few miles away. Lola seemed to like her, and I liked her too. We have a 3rd (and 4th) option that I would like to utilize more – 2 girls that literally live a few houses away. They are 10 and 13. They have dance/ballet on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights so that makes it a bit more difficult to schedule them during the week, but they can’t really stay out late on weekdays anyway. We might try to use them on a weekend and see how it goes.
