Baby Sitters

When I was a baby sitter (on and off from age 12 until 34), I always just figured that when parents gushed over how great it was to have me, that this was some kind of blah-blah routine thing parents say to baby sitters.

Ha!

I appreciate me more now.

Nat's most consistent baby sitter (aside from Uncle David, of course) leaves soon for a semester abroad in Spain (I encouraged this crazy idea and am now kicking myself!) and we are all heartbroken. I now know just how fabulous it is when someone loves your kid and your kid loves her and she's someone who you can just totally leave your kid with and trust completely and she even feels a bit like the baby sister you never had to boot (English major!).

To get all those elements to gel is nothing short of a miracle.

Now it seems her best friend would like to step up to the plate and try to fill her shoes. I'm hopeful it will go well. But there's just no such thing as a true replacement for someone like Nat's Sarah.

We will miss her!