Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Adventures in babysitting

This was my evening a couple weeks back. Among the challenges of hosting five kids-- sippy cup swapping. Needless to say, I think they all ended up with fairly similar germ-iage by the end of the night. We started a new deal with a few of our friends recently. We've entitled this group "Freedom Frenzy." On a pre-designated Saturday night once monthly, one of four couples takes all the (6) kids at once. Then, said couple receives one night out a month for the next three months. It's a pretty sweet deal and, to be honest, the high-energy chaos of the frenzy is almost as much fun as the freedom!

Oh, incidentally, this arrangement has worked out especially well for my husband who coincidentally had to WORK the evening that I had all the kids. Luckily, my mom was in town and she came over to assist...although she did bring two additional guests under the age of 3.

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5 comments:

Manda said...

sounds like like a fun-frenzy filled evening for you! i've read about parents doing groups like these, and it always seemed like such a good idea.

The Carlson Chronicles said...

You are brave--very brave! I bet it was fun, though!

rachel said...

what a cute idea. :)

victoria said...

what a great idea. next time bob has to work, feel free to give me a call! if i'm free i'll help!

DOW FAMILY said...

great idea! so, you get 3 saturday nights in a row out! How cool. How late do you keep the kids??