Improvement
Over the past few weeks we've had the opportunity to leave Wesley with a few different babysitters and we're starting to see some really encouraging results. So much so that we're trying it again tomorrow night!
A couple of weeks ago our friend called us with tickets to see Creedence Clearwater Revisited at Casino Windsor. It's really not a show we would have chosen but the tickets were free and the friend who offered them even offered to come over and watch the kids so we could go. Sold! Of course that time the kids were in bed before we left but it was still a good night out.
Last Friday night we had arranged to go to a fundraising dinner to support the private school where my friend teaches. Nick and I used to go out with Jerilee and Fred all the time before we had kids. As we sat down to dinner last Friday night we tried to think of the last time just the four of us had been together. The best we could come up with was June 5th, 2004 which turned out to be the night I went into labour with Darcy. Anyway, we wanted to go to the dinner and we nervous about getting a babysitter the kids didn't know for Wesley to have a major meltdown. So, we recruited my brother to come from Cambridge. It was a PA day so Darcy had the day off school. Brian came in the afternoon and we all went bowling together and then Brian and the kids had supper while Nick and I got ready to go. We left and the three of them were having a great time. When we got home, Brian said that everything went pretty smoothly. Wesley had been really calm and even went to sleep for Brian without any incident. We were thrilled.
Then last Sunday we tried a new group meeting at our church. The plan is to meet for a potluck supper and then the adults go to a Bible study group with babysitting provided. We weren't sure how that would go, because attempts for me to leave Wesley alone in the church nursery have been pretty disastrous. Last Sunday though, he was perfect again.
So, why the change? What's going on? We really think that Darcy has a lot to do with it. It seems to make him a lot more comfortable knowing that she is being left behind with him. I also think it helped to have Brian spend time with us before we left and then for us to have supper as a big group before we left him on Sunday. So I'm trying to learn from this and trying to implement things that will make things go smoothly from now on when we have to leave him with someone.
There's a movie night at our church tomorrow night and we're going to go. There's a young woman at our church who is living in Windsor and going to the University here. She's going to come and babysit and even put the kids to bed. I've invited her to come for supper (not sure yet if she will) to give Wesley a bit of time to get used to her. She teaches Darcy's class at church so Darcy knows her (and loves her) but Wesley doesn't know her very well.
We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'm just getting greedy, going out three weekends in a row!
A couple of weeks ago our friend called us with tickets to see Creedence Clearwater Revisited at Casino Windsor. It's really not a show we would have chosen but the tickets were free and the friend who offered them even offered to come over and watch the kids so we could go. Sold! Of course that time the kids were in bed before we left but it was still a good night out.
Last Friday night we had arranged to go to a fundraising dinner to support the private school where my friend teaches. Nick and I used to go out with Jerilee and Fred all the time before we had kids. As we sat down to dinner last Friday night we tried to think of the last time just the four of us had been together. The best we could come up with was June 5th, 2004 which turned out to be the night I went into labour with Darcy. Anyway, we wanted to go to the dinner and we nervous about getting a babysitter the kids didn't know for Wesley to have a major meltdown. So, we recruited my brother to come from Cambridge. It was a PA day so Darcy had the day off school. Brian came in the afternoon and we all went bowling together and then Brian and the kids had supper while Nick and I got ready to go. We left and the three of them were having a great time. When we got home, Brian said that everything went pretty smoothly. Wesley had been really calm and even went to sleep for Brian without any incident. We were thrilled.
Then last Sunday we tried a new group meeting at our church. The plan is to meet for a potluck supper and then the adults go to a Bible study group with babysitting provided. We weren't sure how that would go, because attempts for me to leave Wesley alone in the church nursery have been pretty disastrous. Last Sunday though, he was perfect again.
So, why the change? What's going on? We really think that Darcy has a lot to do with it. It seems to make him a lot more comfortable knowing that she is being left behind with him. I also think it helped to have Brian spend time with us before we left and then for us to have supper as a big group before we left him on Sunday. So I'm trying to learn from this and trying to implement things that will make things go smoothly from now on when we have to leave him with someone.
There's a movie night at our church tomorrow night and we're going to go. There's a young woman at our church who is living in Windsor and going to the University here. She's going to come and babysit and even put the kids to bed. I've invited her to come for supper (not sure yet if she will) to give Wesley a bit of time to get used to her. She teaches Darcy's class at church so Darcy knows her (and loves her) but Wesley doesn't know her very well.
We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'm just getting greedy, going out three weekends in a row!
posted by Sue Matthews at 3:22 PM
2 Comments:
Take advantage of this! You deserve it.
Ummm... I believe that's 4 weekends for you - wasn't there a girls night too before all of that! Hey, that just made me realize that we're due for another one!!!
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