Short back story...
His redundancy, 6 months looking, 0 hours contract job, my redundancy, bits and bobs ever since but nothing decent or permanent so money has been very short of well over a year. We pay the bills but have £0 left for treats.
Our friend owns a pub and have always worked the beer festivals, great laugh, good money and the odd sneaky pint! But he has moved to a pub 20 miles away and wants us to do one this weekend. The thing is, our lift would be picking us up at 5pm.
DD1 (16) is happy to babysit (she is being paid, and paid well!), DD4 is 2 and they adore each other. In fact when I took DD1 to the docs today to argue her case over an ongoing issue, a woman in the waiting room thought DD1 was DD4's mum and I was grandma (I am 40, thanks for that :o) She is responsible, can cook, is aware of safety, wouldnt be asked to do anything even slightly risky (I will bath DD4 earlier in the day for eg) and DD4 would go to bed about 6/6:30.
I trust DD, in fact I trust her over my mum who is a great grandma (and would be the emergency call as she is just round the corner) but cant help herself doing what she thinks is best instead of what I would prefer. She will probably have a friend around, but I know and trust her too, they are both very sensible (nothing like me at their age!) but she wouldnt take the piss at all.
I still have the willies about it. She has babysat a lot, it is her main source of income, but this will be the first time she has done bed time. I was thinking of asking her to do bed time a couple of nights this week to get used to it.
Would that be ok or should I not go (I would earn £100 for the 2 nights, H would earn the same, we could do something really lovely with the kids for a change with the money)
WWYD? AIBU to be nervy?
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Bogeyface · 03/03/2014 22:48
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