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My sister is our main go to babysitter, and she lives with us. She watches the kids every Friday night, and it's a big luxury for us. Some weeks we take advantage of it, and other times we just stay home. My FIL also likes to have the kids over for sleepovers on the weekends when he is not working and free. Sleepovers happen every 4-6 weeks.

Maybe 3-4x a year? The last time we had a sitter was over thanksgiving when we were home visiting my family. The time before that was 8/7 for our 5 year anniversary. Before that I don't even remember. We're hiring a sitting for the first time on Friday for my work holiday party. Normally we would ask BIL but it's his birthday.

This makes me feel a bit better! One of the caters at LO's crèche is doing babysitting services out of hours & she was asking me to get onto booking her as the other parents book her out weeks in advance, and some even have fortnightly standing appointments for date nights!! We have never had a babysitter, only grandparents when they are in town. Will be trying one out when LO turns 2 in the new year!

Not often! The last time we did was this summer when we took a weekend trip to Chicago. But it was my best friend and my mom who watched him for the weekend.

About once a week. We have a standing date night during the week, and the same sitter watches the girls. Every once in awhile she can't, or DH has a work conflict. And then randomly we will have weekend plans for events/friends in town/etc.