@DuchessOfCambridge and @MaggieG183 please be careful with those pages. I'm not going to go into detail about my horror stories as I know they can be a great resource, just please be careful and make sure you're conducting an in home interview prior to hiring anyone.
@eatinwatermelonseeds ours is very thoroughly vetted and each babysitter is required to share references, it's pretty intense! But I agree, some of those types of things can be sort of sketchy. I haven't actually used it myself because people around here charge $20/hour to babysit and we can't afford that
@DuchessOfCambridge oh that's good. I was on several and they weren't. And one of the cases even if they were it wouldn't have made a difference. I'm terrified of what could've happened if I wasn't super anal about interviews and house checks. Or if my brain hadn't sounded the alarms it did. It's a creepy world.
@eatinwatermelonseeds the upside to living in a town where everyone is miles richer than you are is that they've set up all this stuff for you. The downside is I can't afford a sitter I totally agree though, it's so scary letting someone else watch your kids. We've never had anyone watch him who wasn't family or a close friend.
Kfkykfocjcjftj I'm so irritated. At like 1030, H said he was totally okay with me just napping and not doing anything. Right after that, doorbell rings. It's the Xfinity guys to set up my cable and security. I have to leave to get DS from preschool at 2:20. Dude JUST left at 2:18. I am exhausted. I just want to cry 😭
DH went out with some friends last night, which he does after bedtime once in a while. It's good for him to get out and connect with people since he works from home and that can be a little isolating.
Anyway, I woke up at 4am, hungry and nauseous, so I went downstairs to get a snack and I found DH asleep, sitting up on the couch, with a bucket at his feet full of puke tipped over and spilled on our (white) carpet. 🤢
Kid puke I can usually deal with, but grown-ass adult man puke while I'm pregnant and he's PTFO? No way. I started gagging and had to run to the bathroom and blow my nose/splash water on my face to keep myself from puking too. Now I can't stop thinking about how it's probably all soaked into the carpet and beyond and nothing will ever be clean again. Hopefully DH wakes up and cleans it before I have to go back down there again... he probably won't.
Well, to DH's credit he did clean it up, however, I can still see where it was, so one of us will have to make another pass at it later. Also, not to his credit, it's 11:45 am and he's still in bed 🙄
@brie_and_almonds oh, hell no! I’ve made DH clean up all his puke messes. I am not here to be your glorified babysitter. I am your wife and partner and will not clean up his mess.
Re: Bitchfest 12/10
Warning, it's gross!
DH went out with some friends last night, which he does after bedtime once in a while. It's good for him to get out and connect with people since he works from home and that can be a little isolating.
Anyway, I woke up at 4am, hungry and nauseous, so I went downstairs to get a snack and I found DH asleep, sitting up on the couch, with a bucket at his feet full of puke tipped over and spilled on our (white) carpet. 🤢
Kid puke I can usually deal with, but grown-ass adult man puke while I'm pregnant and he's PTFO? No way. I started gagging and had to run to the bathroom and blow my nose/splash water on my face to keep myself from puking too. Now I can't stop thinking about how it's probably all soaked into the carpet and beyond and nothing will ever be clean again. Hopefully DH wakes up and cleans it before I have to go back down there again... he probably won't.