I just interviewed a new babysitter. As I write this I think, “Darn why didn’t I ask her about her late evening availability?” I was so busy thinking about our regular schedule and what would I like to get done if I didn’t leave the apartment at 2:30 to pick up My Kid from school and then follow her as she either went to the park for exercise which I advocate or to the library to ostensibly do homework which I also ostensibly advocate but don’t actually feel the need to be there for… so I need a babysitter…
There are a lot of things I am trying to get done this month and the chopped up day with middle school tours and YMCA Pilates mat clases and some grocery shopping and some hours spent at the laundry mat and researching and visiting MIDDLE SCHOOLS (with and without my child) all that has to happen between 9am and 2:30 p.m. I’m just not getting enough done.
So I need some help and I’m willing to pay for it.
Looking back, I should have been paying for this all along.
But, I have always had a hard time committing to a set schedule an even as a toddler, my baby would be sleeping like a log at the appointed hour for me to transport her to the neighborhood daycare, and she and I just never quite got the whole thing worked out to my advantage…