Better Friends??

I got a job taking the newborn pictures at our local hospital. I will work 9-1 on Thursdays and Fridays, and every other Saturday and Sunday. I will only need a babysitter on Thursdays and Fridays. The weekends I work the kids will be able to stay home with their dad.

I am having such a hard time finding a babysitter for 10 hours a week. I'm not asking for free childcare. I'm going to pay whoever does it. Daycare charges $25 per day for a full 8-10 hours a day. I'm going to pay whoever watches my kids $20 a day. So really they will be getting more than if they worked at a daycare. Plus, it will be tax free income. Whoever watches them will have Hudson for the entire time, and Connor for no more than an hour for the next three weeks, and then not at all once school starts. My kids aren't wild. They aren't mean. They are two of the best kids ever. So I really don't understand why nobody wants to watch them.

I always bend over backwards to help out my friends when they need it. Now that I need someone to help out, nobody wants to help. I think I need better friends. I have until next Tuesday, July 20 to find a babysitter. If I don't find one before then, I'm not going to be able to take the job. That would really suck. I'm so excited about this job. I want to work right now. For once, I'm not going to be working because I have to, but because I want to. And I really want to do this job. I hope I can find somebody to watch my boys.