Mommy Syndrome

So since I've been home, a lot of people in the ward have taken pity on me for my lack of a life and for being a poor college student. I've been babysitting a lot and I'm getting pretty good at taking care of kids. I'm not nearly as scared to be a mom anymore. Right now, I'm babysitting my cousins. When Hanna said this was going to be a fun week and I should prepare to cry and Abby called Chris a scumbag, I have to admit I was more than a little concerned about what this week would have in store for me. But we ended up having a great night and everybody went to bed when they were supposed to and nobody ended up in the hospital.

At three o' clock, Hanna and Abby came home from school. Abby was texting me on the way home on the bus. So she knew I was already at their house, so the second she got off the bus she came running towards the house to see me and give me a hug. Such a sweet girl.

We had spaghetti for dinner which I let bored Hanna make under my watchful eye. We all talked over dinner and it was a very nice. When Jack and Sam were done eating they asked very politely if they may be excused. They both took their plates to the sink and the girls and I talked. All of a sudden, Jack comes running back in the kitchen to give me a big hug. It was so adorable.

I promised Jack that when he finished his homework, we could watch a movie together on my laptop. He didn't want to do his homework, so I had to keep asking him to please do it. We finally ended up at the kitchen table and I watched as he did his fraction homework. He's a really smart boy and he would explain to me why that was the answer. "Seven eights is bigger than one half because four is half" however, when he would write that on his paper, it looked more like "7/8 is biger then 1/2 becaze four is hafe" which was waay cuter than the right way to write it.

Anyways, we got done twenty-thirty minutes later, and he said that I could pick the movie because he loves me. I pick Sky High and I put it in my laptop. Jack gets up, I have to do something. He came back, sat for a while, I have to go to the bathroom again. Then left, next thing I know he's just sitting in the living room, watching Wild Thornberry with Sam. This continued for probably an hour and the movie kept stopping because it was scratched. So, I said, "Buddy, this movie is too scratched and we don't have time to watch another one, ok?" Ten minutes later, the kids are all fighting and I convince Jack to go to bed ten-twenty minutes early. Jack gets changed and goes downstairs to sleep in Dad's bed. Three times in the next two hours he comes into the living room to tell me that he woke up, he'd sit there for a minute then run back to bed.

The other kids go to bed without much trouble and Hanna and I talk for a while about Matt's girlfriend, about Chris' mom being in the hospital, about Jack getting a girl's number at school (yes, he is nine and he got a girl's digits..), and just about random stuff until eleven o' clock.

This morning, the girls got up and went to school without any trouble. Then, seven o' clock came around and I went to wake up the boys. They were a little bit of a pain in the butt. I had to go in there a few times but it wasn't too bad. Jack was really cute. He came down and was so excited for his Toaster Strudel. He asked if I had ever had a Toaster Strudel before. I said that I LOVE TOASTER STRUDEL. He asked if I had ever had a Wildberry one. I told him no and he asked if I wanted one. I said yes and he made me one. He is such a cute kid. Sam got up like twenty minutes before he had to leave for school.

Then, I had the rest of the day to myself and I didn't do much of anything. Just talked to my friends and checked my emails. I also tried to fix my schedule for classes this Spring.