A Babysitter's nightmare

Tammy, Mama’s friend from work, brought her kids over last night. Mama and Tammy both had the night off, so Tammy had invited to take Mama out for dinner with her and her husband. Mama’s face glowed with delight. She never went anywhere, so for Tammy to do this meant so much to Mama. Josh was working and Jake and Thomas had spent the night at thier buddies house. So that meant that I was to watch Tammy’s 2 toddlers.

At first I was so excited. If only I could go back and tell myself what a nightmare it was going to be. Tammy’s toddlers may look cute, but in reality they are tiny gremlins that run all over the place and destroy everything. I couldn’t keep them both in the same room. It seemed that they were constantly on the move, hunting out new things to destroy. For some reason they had an obsession with playing with the kitchen draws. Little Kayla would pull it open, then shut it, over, and over, and over again. The draw creaked and cried each time Kayla yanked the draw open and shut, as if it were calling, begging her to stop. At least it kept her occupied. Devin on the other hand, was like a bunny on drugs. He bounced around everywhere. I kept having to race from room to room, trying to locate where he had disappeared to, while still listening to make sure the kitchen draw was still being creaked open and closed. I had captured their attention for a little while, trying to hold it captive as long as possible, by taking pictures of them with the camera that Shana, my best friend, let me borrow for the weekend.

Finally they both fell asleep of the living room couch. They slept like little angels. Everything was peaceful now, but I no longer thought that they were little angels. I had seen the “other side”.

When Mama came home and saw how tired I was, and when I told her of what had happened, she laughed.