I am in desperate need of a babysitter.  My friends are shaking their heads and saying “no frigging joke!” right about now, but there it is.

I needed one this winter and it never happened.  Finding a new sitter felt like just one more thing on my mile-long to-do list, and it never made it anywhere near the top.  The best I could manage is when my mom occasionally “virtually babysits.”  And by that, I mean that she chats with the kids on Skype while I run into the kitchen and get their dinner ready.  The kids think it’s fun, and my mom loves to see them active in their playroom.  But it’s not exactly a workable solution.

I emailed my moms of twins club, as that is the source of all good things.  There were a few leads, but nothing quite seemed to pan out.  At one of our monthly get-togethers, people mentioned they’d had great success with Craigslist, SitterCity, and Care.com.  Well, what the hell.  Time to get off my ass and do something about it.

I posted a job on Care.com.  Within 24 hours, I had nearly 30 responses. I’ve had at least another 30 since then. Hello, combination of college town, summertime, and bad economy!  Honestly, though, it was so many options it was almost too much.  Overwhelming.  But I’m trying to sort through, and in the next two days I’m interviewing five people.  Fingers crossed that one of them works out, but if not, there’s quite a line in my in-box.  Ideally, I’m hoping for a local college student who could keep up some hours through the school year… we’ll see.