My DS asked us to babysit for him and DIL, so they could attend a work night out. I agreed, but did say to him that I hoped DGD, 17 months would go to bed without too much trouble, just as her brother, aged 4 does, after a bedtime routine of bath, story, warm milk and a cuddle. But DGD does not do bedtime, instead mum sits breast feeding her most of the evening and eventually gets her to bed around 10 30pm or even later sometimes. Hence we have not done much night time babysitting, for this reason. DS stated that he had not had an evening out with his wife since baby number two was born. Of course I agreed to give them this opportunity. Oh how I wish I hadn't, they left us at 6 30 pm. We started the bedtime routine at 7pm and we were hopeful DGD would go down as she was obviously very tired. At 7 45pm DGS went to bed as good as gold. But Toddler just refused to even entertain bed. Well she then started to scream and kept this up for nearly 2 hours. We tried everything in the book, but she just continued to scream, getting herself worked up into a terrible state. I can tell you, we were exhausted. At 11 30pm she just fell asleep on the sofa. Needless to say I just left her there in case she woke up again.. DS and DIL returned at 12 10am, to find a pair of frazzled grandparents. I did say to them that I will not babysit for them again in the evening until things improve. Anyone one out there had similar experience with GC. And would any grandparents babysit under these circumstances.
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