OMG! Is it Tuesday afternoon already? When I volunteered for this last week, today was eons away. Now, here I sit at 1:45. But I do have something to report for DIDS: I took on a 5-month-old. Yes, indeed, a baby.
It started 10 years ago when I went from working in high tech doing drawing reproduction and document control to being a stay-at-home mom. Then before I knew it, some friends of ours had a kid, and suddenly, I was a nanny.
In all I’ve had three little charges for two families. They are now 8, 6 and 4. They’ve been mine since they were each just a few months old. The first two kids are both in school across town now, so I don’t care for them often. The 4-year-old, I have 4 days a week. And now, a brand new one.
If anyone had told me when I was younger that I’d be raising other peoples’ children for a living, I would have laid them out with a running tackle and rubbed knuckle noogies on their head until they took it back. I wasn’t even going to have any of my own, dang it! But now, I find that being paid to borrow other peoples’ children during the day, and then getting to return them in the evening is really quite ideal.
Even on days like tomorrow, when I have all four of my daytime kids, plus my own fulltime one.
Seriously, I never would have guessed that I would have crashlanded here in my 1916 Sears Kit house with a husband, a kid and a borrowed flock. But, ya know? T'aint so bad.
Here's what my DIDS is doing as I type here on our first day together. Both mine with the baby, and mine here with you.
I'm going to get this up quick, before this brief utopian moment ends.
So? What have y'all done?