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I’m not gonna lie. Paying for babysitting stinks.
I want to say that I love paying for babysitters. We have some pretty stellar kids who babysit for us, and they take such great care of our kids. They are responsible and fun, and let’s just keep it real – they do some activities with my kids that I tend to avoid – like painting. Or taking the kids outside in the winter. Or playing imagination with all the little action figures. {Can I get a witness?!}
But here’s the rub – our budget is tight, super tight. Since I pay a babysitter so I can go to work, there’s little extra to pay a babysitter for date night or a girl’s night out.
But I do fork over the babysitting moolah so I can volunteer in my kids’ school.
You probably think I’m crazy to pay a babysitter so I can volunteer in my kids’ school when I have a hard time affording babysitting for a date night. However, enrolling our kids in public school this year was a weighty decision for our family (more on that here), and my husband and I agree that being involved in the kids’ school is important enough that we’ll budget for a babysitter.
Click over to For the Family to read why I pay to volunteer at my kids’ school.
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