New Babysitter - Night Out With Jean

A friend and coworker, who we have tried to go out with for quite some time, asked Jean and I if we would like to go out tonight.  He explained that his daughter was in Ocean City for the weekend with family and that he and his wife were free if we wanted to get together.  Well, Jean and I are pretty finicky about who watches the girls and the girls are pretty finicky as well - finding a babysitter all 4 of us can agree on has proved problematic.  I told my friend that I would let him know by Thursday if we could find one.  Jean struck gold with someone in the neighborhood.  She had come over for a visit earlier in the week for a trial run (at my insistence) for a half hour and ended up staying two.  Well, we were out for 3 hours with no phone calls and no crying.  After she left we asked the girls if they had fun and liked the babysitter - they both agreed.  When she came back to make sure we hadn't made a mistake with how much we gave her (I paid her for the trial run as well), Alyssa gave her a high-5, waved and said goodbye.  That was the seal of approval I needed.  Oh, dinner and company were great too :-)