Newest business idea: Recipro-Sitters or Sitter Swappers?

Sarah is my reciprositter.  She is a mama of twin girls that I met about 4 months ago and she has become one of my closest friends here in CA.  She gets it. She knows the struggles and joys of raising twins.   Although our educational backgrounds differ, she understands the frustrations of trying to have a career and be the best mom she can be. We have similar styles of parenting and are going through similar milestones with our kids.  We are both not from CA - she is from Canada and we are from the Northeast so neither of us has a lot of family that live close enough to help babysit.  And weirdly, our twins are very similar.  We both have one headstrong, fearless twin and one feeling, observant twin.  She is also my twins' Music Together teacher, a class where we have no fewer than 3 sets of twins each week.

So the other day Sarah suggested we trade babysitting. Of course we should.  We decided to do an evening sitting swap. She came over on Friday after the kids were in bed, and me and the hubby went out to dinner.  For free.  She even washed some dishes out of the kindness of her heart!!  And then on Saturday I went over to her house after her babies were in bed and they went to see the new James Bond movie. It was the first time she and her hubby had been out to a movie in 13 months - since her twins were born!!  It was great because the kids were in bed and all I had to do was pet her cats, have a cup of tea, read my book and eat some of the delicious mint chocolate cookies that she baked me (she is fabulous, BTW).  I thought, wow this could be an awesome buiness: matching up families with similar aged kids and parenting styles for evening babysitting.  The only catch is you have to return the sitting job and pay me (the business owner) a small fee. I mean, if we get a sitter through a service, we pay 16.50$ an hour plus a monthly fee plus gratuity, and the minimum is 4 hours. So that can make for a very expensive date night!  Nowi am not sure how the business model works after you make friends with your recipro-sitter family. I mean, how do you keep collecting a fee?  But anyways I thought it was a neat idea!

What do you think?  Did you ever have any creative ideas for a business ( I also think there should be drive-thru super-markets and craft studios with child-care on-site!)

Solving a Small Problem with Diaper Covers

So we use mainly AI2 and fitteds for daytime diapering.  We like Grovia, Bestbottoms, and TrendLab and for fitteds we use Thirsties Fab fitted duos with Thirsties Covers (sized and duos).  Occasionally when my HUSBAND diapers them in the fitted we have some leakage, generally due to operator error when putting the cover on over the fitted, either at the leg holes or at the waist due to peek-through.  Here is an example of what I mean:

Every time this happens I ask myself,  "Well there must be a cover that has some sort of flap of the PUL that I can tuck up and over the fitted."  I am not talking about tuck-in flaps that you would use to insert flats or inserts into a cover. I am talking about a fly flap, kinda like what a tent has.  After a facebook query to my new FluffyBlogger friends (thanks ladies!) and poking around the internet and Etsy, I came to the conclusion that what I was seeking doesn't exist, at least not without it having to be custom-made.  (Not that I was able to find anyways so I APOLOGIZE in advance if anyone has made covers like this.)  Being a crafty lady I thought I could make a cover with some PUL I have out in the garage that was meant to make cloth diapers for the twins (yeah that happened, NOT!) but then I thought why don't I just modify an existing diaper cover.  So out came the sharp scissors and VOILA, I created what I had envisioned in my mind, a cover with a "fly flap."
Here I used a Large Thirsties sized cover with hook and loop and I simply cut the attachment of the tuck-in flap on both edges:

Now when I put the cover on I can literally tuck in the "fly flap" over the top of the fitted underneath to ensure no accidental bleed-though.  And because it's PUL I don't need to finish the edges or make any further modifications, although I haven't sent it through the wash yet so not sure how it will hold up.  Now the caveat of doing this is that you wreck the cover for resale if people want to use them for flats or inserts. In addition this won't work on the Thirsties Snap covers because the snaps go all the way through  flap layer. That's kinda a bummer because my kids are starting to take off hook and loop diapers.  Argh.  Well anyways that is my brilliant idea and I'd love to hear your thoughts.  (This million-dollar idea is for sale, just PM me. LOL)