CrissyBoop

lldags

Hi there - I was reading your post about food poisoning and your b-day disaster - Glad you survived, sounds like a nightmare!! I was going to say that you should try and find a college student or somehting who baysits on the side and get to know her well and have her know Jack.  It is super important that you and hubby get out sometimes wihtout him and recharge and connect as a couple.  I know easier said than done to leave your baby with a stranger but maybe you can find someone and build a relationship with them?  We are lucky in the sense that almost none of our friends have kids but they are all greatwith Ryan and we have used friends as babysitters a few times.  But we also need to find someone we can use when there is an even t we want to attend that our friends are all at too.  I figured I could relate to you since we have no family here either to leave Ryan with.....

CrissyBoop

acutally Lauri I just heard about a website last week that lists verified and referred college students, apparently you can pick by school(of course what is local)  and you can even call references.  I am such a dummy though and didn't write it down at Mom's group and we don't have it today due to the holiday, so I will have to get it next week.  Up until last weekend we really haven't had too much trouble getting out b/c we had SOOOO many visitors.  We actually went on a real date two weeks ago while my Mom and sis were here, but we do need to get someone, b/c it would be nice to catch a movie every now and again.  We talked about possibly switching off at Mommie's group, but most people have family here, so I think that would be their first choice therefore not really want to babysit for us kwim? 

lldags

I know it is hard.  We were visiting my family this past weekend and it was so easy just saying "ok, we're heading out to dinner now!" and leaving him with my mom. Or running out while he was napping b/c I knew my mom could get him up from his nap.  You should definetley get the # for that college student service!