It's about time...

I'm officially organizing a babysitting co-op for the Utah Valley Area. I've got lots of friends here, and I know you all have more friends and neighbors, that would be interested and excited about participating. If you are like me, you want to go out more, have regular date nights with the hubby, MAYBE weekly girls- nights, BUT the mother's guilt, lack of funds or available sitters stand in your way. Those days are OVER, as far as I am concerned.

A babysitting co-op gives you:

* no-cost, quality childcare

* a support network of other women who deal with many of the same daily issues as you do.

* the opportunity to spend time on yourself.

* a new group of friends for you and your children.

* Guilt-free because it is a give and take.

Because a co-op is a give-and-take proposition, it's necessary to have a record keeping system so that all members benefit from the co-op. (I volunteer to get this all organize and be the first "secretary" to keep track of everyone's points).

* Each member begins with a 30-point base and is charged one point for one child per hour and an additional point for each additional child per hour. Members who do the babysitting call in their earned points to a secretary who debits and credits the member "accounts." The secretary is a position that rotates among members monthly; she is paid five points for keeping the books updated.

All co-op members receive membership lists from their co-ops which contain the name, address and phone number of each member, their children's names and ages, an emergency number and the name and phone number of the children's doctor.

I am EXTREMELY excited about this and I hope you all are too. I propose that we start collecting names and email addresses of those interested and then we will have a meeting for all the woman to meet, where we can also pass out a membership list.

So...please leave your name and email address and SPREAD THE WORD to your friends and neighbors and have them also leave their name and email address as a comment on this blog post :)