Friday, July 11, 2014

happy weekend




I hope you have a good weekend!



  1. As an oldest child (of eight children), I definitely did a LOT of babysitting growing up. I'm pretty sure my parents didn't pay for a babysitter once I turned ten or so. But it had a (probably unintended) side effect: it's excellent birth control, haha. Nothing will disabuse you of the notion that little children are endless joys who love you unconditionally like babysitting your little siblings (or someone else's).

  2. Your description of a Mesa summer evening really takes me back. I can close my eyes and "hear" the heat. The crickets, the sound of a/c units running, and backyard pool filters running. I can feel the waves of heat rising up from the sidewalk and smell the grass and citrus groves. Crazy as it sounds, you've made me homesick!

  3. Emma being 12 has been heavenly. Bad thing is people in the ward like her so they call her to babysit. Here is what we do with her, we don't pay her, we gave her the option to be payed for babysitting and then she has to pay for the extra stuff in life she would like to do, like piano and volleyball OR she babysits for free and we pay for those things. didn't take long for her to see free was a better way to go for her. Yesterday i went to winco with just carson and she stayed with the girls and even that was a huge blessing. so yay for girls being born first.

  4. Thanks for the link--I clicked over to read it and discovered that your friend Annie is my old VT companion Annie from Provo days! Small world. :-)

  5. My father's only advice to his grown children; never allow an older sibling watch (babysit) another sibling. Wise words.

