We love Sittercity.com

One of our biggest concerns when we first moved to Wichita was finding a reliable babysitter.  We knew no one and our closest family was 2 1/2 hours away in Kansas City.

In fact, the only way we could go to the movies by ourselves was to visit Mimi in Kansas City for a weekend and have her babysit Jack while we went out for the evening.  5 hours of driving just to have a night out gets old after a while.

We knew we needed to find a good sitter so we turned to the power of the World Wide Web.  Todd suggested Craigslist but Jennifer wasn’t too thrilled about that idea.  “No photos, no profile, no references, and no resume,” she said.

Todd thought for a second and said, “What website has all that?”

Jennifer shot right back, “Sittercity, you big dork!”

Todd thought again for a minute and then remembered…”Hey I think I’ve heard of that site.  I read about it in a book I have about internet businesses.  A college student in Boston started it and turned it into one of the best websites in the world.”

Jennifer said, “I don’t care about all that, I just want someone who isn’t weird to watch Jack!”

So we went on the site and started looking at all the babysitters in Wichita.  We found some people we liked, checked their bios, their work experience, their schedules, their references and the map of where they lived.  Then we mailed a few we liked.

Within a couple weeks we interviewed a local college student and decided she’d make a great babysitter for Jack.  She hasn’t disappointed.  We haven’t used her in a month or so, but get this…

She just emailed us one day last week – out of the blue – to ask how everything was going.  Now that’s special.  Sittercity has been everything we’d hoped for and we hope you like it too.

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