Saturday, March 3, 2012
Today's adventure
Joey has become a babysitter. Twice now he has tended the neighbor's kids. There is a 4 year old and a 3 year old. The first time, they were asleep so he played video games while his parents were at a meeting. The next time it was just the 5 year old and he played with him for a couple hours. Isn't it kind of funny? They live in our apartment complex, really close to us, so it's not like we were far away if he needed help (and that was the whole idea, too.) And he has earned 3 whole dollars, which is exciting to him because he really never gets money, except from Grandma and Grandpa, and Auntie Betty. It was burning a hole in his pocket tonight, so I took him to the drugstore down the street so he could get some candy. We were in there checking out the goods for probably about 3 minutes, and I started thinking that he should hurry up because I wanted to get home so I could get Allie ready for bed . . . wait a minute!!! And I remembered that we had brought her with us. And left her in the car. AAAAAHHHH!! Needless to say I tore out of the store and rescued her. She wasn't happy. She didn't want to come on the trip in the first place, and then to be left! Poor girl. I was just glad nobody saw her and called the cops. It was really only a few minutes though. So sad. But funny, too. More funny than sad, I think. Oh brain, when did you desert me?
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I feel your pain. Once when Aaron was six months old, we went to Kalli's parent teacher conference and didn't realize that we had left him in the car in the Westmore parking lot. We were late for her appointment so we were rushing and we had left Aidan home with Kael and aaron was sound asleep in his car seat. We parked the car, ran into Westmore (hurry, hurry!) spent 10 minutes in the conference and as we were walking out, I thought, I'm missing something. I realized then that we had left Aaron in the car. I ran to the van and he was awake, looking around calmly. I sobbed the whole way home and couldn't believe what a bad mom I was!
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