Babysitting

Em had her first babysitting gig tonight.

Well, sort of. She's awfully young to be responsible for all the mayhem a kid can get up to.

Still, one of her closest friends, same age, has a license to babysit, and had lined up a gig that called for more than one.

The way Em initially explained it to me was along the lines of, we'll be keeping the kids busy so the adults can have a party with drinking.

At which point, I was, What makes you so sure I'm letting you do this?

However, knowing the family of the other babysitter, I knew either the description of the event was totally wrong or else it was something the friend wasn't going to be allowed to do either.

Turns out, what it was was a Bible study session for the adults. They had four toddlers among them, and the two twelve year olds were hired to keep the tots out of Mommy's hair while she got her scriptures on. Quite the contrast from Em's original description of a John Cheeveresque cocktail party.

Plus, if anything serious went wrong, a broken bone, a seizure, a choking, the adults would be available.

Em had a blast playing with the little microhonyocks, and after it was over got a check for ten bucks. Not too shabby when you consider she'd have done this for free just to play with little kids and hang with her BFF.