Work? who me?

Emily and I got to babysit together on both Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday we babysat a 6 1/2 year old, Gage, at our neighbors' house. We haven't ever watched him before. I was glad Emily was there with me, because of not having even met him before! What did we do? We played with a plastic bat and ball in the backyard, went to the park, colored; he played the computer and played with Lincoln logs; and we watched a DVD about sheepdogs. We only watched it after we could finally figure out how to get the channel turned to do DVD rather than the TV, which was showing the Olympics in China. Since I don't have experience with TVs, I couldn't figure it out; plus, I had the wrong remote, so it was quite the adventure! Oh, and we played the old game "Tiddly Winks" twice with Gage.

Yesterday, I got to babysit for the Browns, for whom I have babysat several times. Their 5 1/2 year old and 1 1/2 year old, needed to be here while their mom and older sister went to a movie. Lincoln, the 1 1/2 year old, slept for a while, while Emily and I played with Hope. Hope and I put a puzzle together, and Em played with us a Go Fish Bible character sort of game. Hope was a lot of fun to play with. We played Hide-N-Go-Seek too. Then Hope wanted to play with our matchbox cars, and a few she had brought. By that time Lincoln was up from his nap and ready to play with toys too.

I am scheduled to help a friend (who Mother babysits for often) clean a house (which her family has been renting) this Friday.

I thank the Lord for the jobs He's given me!