coffee bean is literally closing now...have to continue this tale tomorrow...
a boomeranger is defined as a child who returns home after college to live with his/her baby-boomer parents. add one year and 3,000 miles and you have me: one such child trying not to return to the nest. can i do it?
Monday, August 2, 2010
tiny tears
remember when i said to never go to work as a waiter/waitress hungover? well, that scenario has met its match: babysitting while hungover. brutal. on top of making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch and mac n cheese for dinner, i also managed to make the two kids i was watching cry. the first was because i said his drawing of an elephant looked more like a rat--totally my fault, but lesson learned that i have got to be more sensitive around these tikes. his exit from our drawing game was truly fascinating: hides his face, head to the table, takes refuge on a nearby couch while playing with apps on his itouch. remember the days when simply retreating to a corner would suffice a child's hurt ego? now let me paint for you the second tear-jerker: me and little girl literally playing tug-o-war with a frozen, chocolate-covered banana. i had already let her walk all over me with her consumption of the medium-sized frappuccino, a chocolate madeleine, and cocoa shavings (don't ask)...i was NOT going to let her eat that damn banana!
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i am one that can totally relate to this situation- well not fully. kids are hard, tiring, and very sensitive. i have wanted to slap a couple of them (well not really but have thought about it many times.. sometimes the crying just needs to stop or it's called sharing!) we have bachelor degrees and we are paid to be mom's... life lessons.
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