It's been a stressful week.  Grandparents in the hospital -(one is OK and out ...the other, we're still waiting to hear), a slumber party (oy), a cancer scare for my uncle (negative. yay.), an at-home birthday party for which I had to bake a cake.  (Baking a cake: herculean task for yours truly. But click here for an AMAZING and easy recipe ) And to top it all off, the revelation that a popular NY babysitter - vaguely connected to my own children -  was arrested for child molestation.  They are fine, but it was too close for comfort.Now tomorrow, it's mothers day.Yeah. right.The only thing I want for mothers day is a break.  I want my husband and I to get away from birthday hysteria, and family health problems, and shocking revelations about people we trusted, and yes, even from our over-exuberant kids.The thing is...whose gonna take them?My parents aren't up to the task, my husband's parents even less so.  My sister has her own brood to deal with, my husband's sister has grown kids and enough on her plate.Does this mean there's no way out?  No one to take them?  There are babysitters...but the expense of a sitter plus the expense of wherever we go...well, that sort of nixes that idea. There are agencies...but there is NO way I'm leaving them with a virtual stranger.  There's taking them with us....but, um, NO.I know it's too late for Mothers Day, but still, I have a plea for advice:Whom do you leave your kids with? How do you get away?  It's been nine years and we've only gone away TWICE.  Clearly we need advice.  Got any?

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