Better understanding of what my mom goes through...

So I have a much better understanding as to what my wonderful mother goes through every day. I've been babysitting 4 of my cousins for about 3 1/2 days now, and I am SO tired.

I came over to their house around 2 on Thursday afternoon, and immediately went off to pick Mary (the youngest who is in 2nd grade). I brought her back home, and then we said goodbye to my Aunt and Uncle as they went on their way to beautiful Mexico. The other kids came home, and I made chicken spaghetti for dinner. Friday morning I took the two middle kids (Joy, 6th grade and Sarah, 8th grade) to the middle school, and Mary to her elementary school. I then went back over to my house to say hello to my parents and join them for a bit of coffee. Cameron came over for a bit of DDR, and then we headed over to Peggy Sue for some lunch. After we got home from lunch and a dessert from Doughmonkey, we got a call from Mary saying that she had a huge headache. We drove over to the school, picked her up, gave her children's tylinol, and had her take a nap. All the other kids trickled in from school, and we eventually sat down to a dinner of chicken enchiladas, chips and salsa. Johnny (the eldest of 10th grade) was at a slumber party that night, so I didn't get to see much of him. He told me later on that he didn't get to bed until 5 AM, and he needed to be up by about 6:30 AM for the band car wash on Saturday morning. Ouch.

Saturday I took the girls to the car wash and had a fun time getting to chat with Johnny and all my younger band friends. We went back home and had a declared "quiet hour" because Mary was being a bit chatty. Thankfully, Mary was "fashionably late" with her quiet hour, and what was one hour turned into 2 1/2. Excellent. I ordered pizza for dinner, and Jeff came over and joined us. We went to blockbuster to use a coupon that the girls had earned for reading a certain number of books, and we rented this movie called "The beautitian and the beast". Worst... movie... ever. But, we couldn't really find anything "Mary appropriate". Oh well. We all had a good laugh after that. After the movie, everyone but me and Sarah had gone to bed and Jeff left, so Sarah and I had a good bonding time. I didn't end up getting to bed until 1 AM or so, but it was well worth getting to spend time with my cuz.

So now it's Sunday, and we went to church this morning, met up with my family for lunch at Wendy's, and now we're having a good 'ol homework afternoon. Johnny apparently just finished, because he's been playing on his guitar pretty loudly for the past 30 minutes or so. And now I need to go figure out what we're having for dinner. I think it's going to be a spaghetti night. So after Tuesday I'll have the last half of my babysitting job to report.