Sunday
Well, today was an okay day for baby-sitting. I mean summer's here and well, what's there to do? Emily Michelle and Andrew were way bored. Man, you said it yourself Claire, things do get boring in the summer. Luckily, I had the best idea....
Hmmm. Karen's idea was pretty good. But not the best idea. (Sometimes she gets carried away with her ideas.)
I can't stress it enough how boring things can get when it's summer time. I like school, and I know for a fact Karen does too and possibly, maybe Emily Michelle does also. She's going into middle school, her first year. Karen's going to start high school this school year. Well anyway, well I was pondering over things to do and who to invite to Sea City, that same day Karen was over at her dad's house to baby-sit ten year old Emily Michelle and twelve year old Andrew.
They were bored as can be, laying around their livingroom, on their backs. Maybe bored enough to just not do anything. Their fancy air conditioner was on full speed and all Emily Michelle was doing was moaning about how cold she was. Karen was sprawled on the couch suggesting things for her to do like, "Make a puzzle", or "Clean out under your bed". Oh yeah and I forgot to mention, they have a pool but I guess that idea was already passed by and ditched as well. Andrew was forbidden to watch TV so he was moaning too, and finally he just went upstairs to his room.
"Hey, let's go in the playroom and find something to do." said Karen. Emily Michelle didn't object so she just followed Karen upstairs, somewhat slowly. Karen plopped herself on the floor of the very large, cluttered, play room and began absentmindely stacking up some old blocks. Emily watched her for a little while, from her spot at the little drawing table in the playroom.
"Karen?" she asked after awhile.
"Yeah?" said Karen as her block tower went loudly crashing down.
"I was just wondering, do you miss school?" Emily asked.
"Yes, I do. It's better than being bored right?"
"Right." replied Emily with a smile. Then Karen had the idea.
"Hey, I know what we can do! Let's have our own school. We can do all kinds of neat things!" she said excitedly.
"Okay! That sounds like fun." So Emily agreed and she and Karen worked hard to set up the playroom as a school. It was actually pretty neat what they did. They used some overturned cardboard boxes as desks and they used two boxes put together for the teacher's desk. They set up some more "students" using stuffed animals and dolls, then Emily put a peice of paper and a crayon or marker on each desk. Then as a joke, Karen placed an apple on the teacher's desk.
"Okay, I'll be the teacher." stated Karen and she plopped right down on the cushion behind the "teacher's" desk. Emily Michelle didn't seem at all bothered by Karen's, well, bossyness. If I was watching Emily I would've let her be the teacher. Before class began however, Karen checked on Andrew, who was building with Lego blocks and then hurried back to the playroom. Karen knew Andrew might feel as if he was too old for playing school anyway.
So class began. Karen wrote down some of the things they did in the notebook. Whoops. Did I explain about the notebook? I'm sorry I should've earlier, but I'll still tell you. See, when Kristy began the club years ago she told the other club members to keep a diary about each of the sitting jobs they went on. I guess it was useful because it provided a lot of information about the kids they sat for so the other members could learn from each other's baby-sitting experiences.
Sorry about that, but back to Karen's job that afternoon. She and Emily did some work, mostly art class though. Then they had gym out in the backyard and finally they settled for snack time. Karen fixed everyone Oreos and milk and they all sat down at the kitchen table, which I might add is the same exact table we have, with the benches. Emily Michelle told Karen again how much she wanted to go to back to school. Karen was glad at least, to do a little schooling, even though it was the beginning of June.