Opus 244 - Babysitting Whoas

Let me start this post by saying that I'm incredibly grateful for my job. It's a good job; the kids are good; the school is good; the colleagues are good. This job has made it so that we can afford to pay for things like food, housing, heat... you know, the minor things in life. I am grateful for that.

I just wish there weren't so many darn evening events. It makes it really hard to find people to watch the kids. Although we're making ends meet - that's all we're making and we just can't afford to hire a babysitter or have the nanny stay later when I have school things at night. Let me tell you, one of the worst feelings you can have is knowing that you absolutely have to be someplace, but you have no idea who is going to watch your kids and you keep trying and trying to find someone, but you just can't and time is running out. If you've never had that feeling, be grateful, because it's miserable. I know there are people who would happily let me drop the kids off at their house, but when I don't get home until 10:00 p.m., that just won't work. My kids would never make it until 10:00 and that'd make EVERYONE miserable. I can't do that do my kids. But I can't take them to a football game either. It's not professional, it'd be a nightmare trying to keep track of them while trying to deal with the band, and there'd be so many germs! I've already had students with the swine flu, I'm not giving it to my kids.

Seriously, the not-so-smart person who planned a high school football game on a Thursday night should be fired. Really. What was he thinking??? (You know it was a man who did that!)