Daycare

Daycare

“What can we do now?” four year old Tina asked.

I looked at her, vibrating with energy. I felt like I’d been carrying heavy boxes all day, and I’d only had her for three hours so far!

I’d never had her for a whole day without her parents before. When I knew she was coming I prepared things, activities and food, things to excite her that we could bond over, but not today.

Her parents had to rush out unexpectedly to help her other grandmother with some nasty house issue. I was unprepared for a whole day with a four year old. Wracking my brain was coming up blank, not surprising...

“Let’s see,” I said, trying to sound as if I was choosing something from a long list of fun things. “Maybe we should have a snack?”

“Yippee!”

Thankfully that flew, and I did have snacks, not parental approved perhaps but the ‘parentals’ were not here...

Ten minutes later, ice cream gone, “What should we do next?”

Suddenly, an idea. “Let’s make a cake!” I’d never made a cake, I am one of that rare breed of women who don’t actually cook... but thought I likely had ingredients...

I did, and we had fun measuring and mixing. I had all the equipment because my husband used to cook all the time, which is how I survived never having to learn...

Everything went well until we got it in the oven, and went to watch TV while it was baking. Which I forgot all about, until it suddenly got smoky in the house...The fire truck showing up was pretty exciting!

Tomorrow, Tina gets to go to her other Grammie’s house, for the whole day! Her parents are coming over here, to help me with a somewhat smelly house issue...