So we’re coming up on the vacation trip, and we’re starting to finish our preparations to ensure that the kids are taken care of properly while we’re gone.
Now, when we leave the kids with their grandparents for a night, it’s fairly straight forward. But the kids aren’t familiar with the babysitter, nor she with them, so there’s additional preparations that have to be made. (To be fair, the sitter’s met them a few times before this, and she’s sat for us while we went out, so it’s not like she’s some total stranger… but she’s not family either.) Continue reading