Week of Adventures in Babysitting

For three days this week I watched my two nieces. We went to the pool, to the store, did coloring pages, cleaned the house, made paper flowers, watched Harry Potter (which was their first time seeing it), played wii, read books. I only wished we could have done more, it is hard to do a lot of things when we are low on money :( All in all, I am exhausted. Who knew that babysitting a seven year old and and eleven year old could be so much work. We had our good happy times and our angry-breaking things time (in a way it felt there was more angry times than good times). I wish that there was an easier way to know how to discipline them. I suppose that is not my job though. Oh, well. That brings me to my casualty, the thing that got broke during 'angry time.' We have, well had a set of lamps from Target that is made out of green glass. Now, we just have one of the set. Still on the hunt for the other one, unfortunately Target no longer sells it so I have been looking everywhere online. Here is a before picture of our lamp, the one that is still in one piece. (Note the pictures taken by the hubster!)

BEFORE

AFTER

Such as life. This weekend was good, spent time with hubby just relaxing. We went out late Saturday night to pick up a few groceries and played out in the rain during the storm. I enjoy times like those with him. Ginger made it a fun night too. Stephen mushed a water gallon and made it flat, turned out to be her favorite toy. He threw it like a Frisbee into the entry way and she ran after it. We did this for a good half hour. The funniest thing was to see her jumping over stuff with it in her mouth. Here's to finding fun out of the simple things this week!