Baby Swap

Last Friday evening, Andrew and I left Salem with a babysitter for the
first time. In the past, we have only left her with our parents.
Everything went well, besides that fact that we basically had to pay
her an arm and a leg for the evening. How do people afford to do it
every single weekend? We would be broke. So, instead, I came up with a
system with my neighborhood group of friends to do baby swaps! I know
I'm not the genius that invented such a thing, but it is working and
that's all that matters. So, over the weekend, Andrew kicked off the
festivities by babysitting Salem's friend Kaeson and they will return the favor so we can celebrate our anniversary on Monday!!! Hooray! We are all benefitting
from this and not having to dish out any cash for it. The kiddos get to
play, the parents get time to themselves, and every one is happy! It's
a you watch, we watch, you watch, we watch type of thing. We basically
set a calendar out at playgroup, and all the mommies went over it and
marked off days that they could watch in one color ink and days they
wanted to go out in another color. See, simple! Why didn't we ever
think of this before? Plus, it works out perfect because we all live in
the same development and all the kids are only WEEKS apart in age.