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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you keep giving the impression that you're exhausted or swamped or can't give each kid enough individual attention, or the toddler would ruin an experience for the 7 yr old?  All those things may be prompting this.

You can just say "You're so sweet to keep offering to take Cassidy places. [b] Call us paranoid, but it takes Dave and me a really long time to trust people with our kids.  Totally not you personally. [/b] But we'd all love if you'd join us for our playground picnic next Sunday." [/quote]
Say this if you want to end the friendship. Just say you like to do things together with the kids. So she wants to go to museum you can decline if timing doesn't work for you but you all go if that works. Is she is offering to babysit at your home while you go for a date night? If that would make you uncomfortable you need to re-evaluate the friend.[/quote]

I don’t know if it would end the friendship to say that, it sounded pretty good to me but I thought of another avenue - if you work outside the home during the week you could say I know it’s a bit crazy but I really like doing things together with the kids most of the time on the weekends because I’m away so much during the week[/quote]

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