OUR FIRST SLEEPOVER

Tonight after work I will pick up the girls from daycare. It will be our first night together and I am looking forward to it. We had a trial sleepover last weekend and all went well. they are amazing girls but they are very very smart and very very quick and a little bit devilish. We were at Grandma Pegs and I ducked into the washroom for a moment or 2 and come back to find them wackin poor Uncle Myles with the floor mat. So down the hall we marched for a 'settle down please' chat . I was suddenly transformed from Auntie Fun to Auntie Disciplinary. I think they were very disspoainted with me and Im preety sure that they had conspired to have the best month ever running a-muck with Auntie Fun.....but like a real mom I thwarted their fun. I let them down. We did have an awful lot of fun riding Grandpa Jims wheelchair round and round the Old Oflks Home. I suppose it is all about balance.

I AM A THIEF AND A FOOL

When I was 4 years old I stole some raisins from the Shop-Easy . I wanted them badly and my mom said no because justifiably we already had a co-op sized tub of them at home. But, I really really wanted these particular raisins because they came in a little red box with a picture of a pretty maiden on the front...so I took em. I put them in the front zippy part of my pink K-Way jacket and off we went back home to Grandmas.

The whole way home in the car, I couldnt stop thinking about the raisins waiting in my pocket and how excited I was to get home, to hide somewhere and scarf back my stolen stash. It was a mixture of anticipation, trepidation, apprehension with a little panic thrown in for good measure. To make a long story short, I snuck into the TV room and as I was watching Looney Toons and enjoying my another nice juicy raisin, my mom walked in and busted me. We then marched directly back to the store and I was forced to apologize to the cashier and return my half eaten box of raisins. I remember feeling like I had made a very bad choice when I decided to steal those raisins, I remember feeling as though no one in the world was as stupid as me. I remember wanting to go home and hide under the covers and never show my face again. I never stole again.

Lets jump ahead a few years. 28 years later I am feeling some of those awesome 'I cant wait to get home to eat my raisins feelings' This time the raisins are in the shape of 2 little girls, one is 5 years old and the other is 3. I will belooking after my best friends babies for the whole month beginning in a couple of weeks and once again I am feeling a mixture of anticipation, trepidation, apprehension with a little panic thrown in for good measure. It is afairly massive undertaking for a gal like me but these 2 are wonderful girls, tons of fun to be around and I just cant wait to get to their place and begin our fun together.

That reminds, me.....when are they leaving again? Shit, I'd better call and find out when this all begins

"hi, its me. What day are you guys leaving again ?
"the 2nd. why ? is everything okay ?"
"Oh yeah, everything is cool, I have just lost my day planner so i forget what date I debut for motherhood"
"It should be in your email....I emailed it to you a couple weeks ago and I sent you a text last week as a reminder"
"yeah, I know but i forget the password to my email so I cant get in right now and my phone is dead so i cant check it. Gotta go I'm off to the pub.....lata"

I think I heard her shudder before she hung up. Funny, she must be cold.