At this very moment, I am kid-free for 60 minutes! It doesn't seem like much time, and I am not jumping for joy over this (nor am I dying to have my kids home either right now), I am just making a note of it. Especially after such a busy week. A week where being kid-free was extremely rare. In fact, I had more kids than normal. I am not complaining about that either. I babysit 2 boys a few times a week and I have loved them. On top of those boys, I had other kids here too. In fact, there were 2 days between Monday and Thursday that I had 6 kids under the age of 5 in my house!
Crazy? You betcha! But when I can put my everything-must-be-clean-and-orderly mode aside for a few hours, it is actually fun. My kids love it because having more kids to play with is lots better than their boring, old mom!
A funny moment of the craziness happened yesterday. Even though I had 6 kids in my house, it was surprisingly quiet and peaceful. 2 out of the 6 were napping, while the other 4 were watching "Home Alone 2." I received an important phone call and the lady asked, "is it a good time? do you have a few minutes?"
I replied, "It is actually perfect timing"
I am not joking, about 30 seconds later, the baby I babysit woke up screaming, Gracey and Emily started fighting with each other, naturally, waking up the 2 year old. My life went from peaceful to chaotic in 30 seconds or less. I apologized to the lady on the phone and said we would have to talk again soon. After hanging up I looked at the phone log and it said I was on the phone for 46 seconds.
What can you do besides just laugh??
1 comment:
Sounds like you have really needed a break! I'm glad you got one. I have a love/hate relationship with babysitting. When it's good it's GREAT, but when it's bad it's HORRIBLE. But I do it anyway when I can so I can trade back :)
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