Taking Charge of the Mackay Kids

I spent the past week, May 12th through May 17th, in Draper watching over the Mackay kids while their mom and dad cruised to exotic places like Croatia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. Needless to say, this experience gave way to feeling my age. Trying to keep up with a 4th 5th and 6th grader as well a four year old taught me that you really do need to have children when you are young. The need for carpools, school lunches, homework, library trips and laundry kept me active and hopping every minute of the day. There was hardly a minute to shop, read, relax or watch television. One night Garn and I were exhausted and retired to the bedroom at 10:00 pm to watch the news. Garn pushed one (wrong) button on the TV and that was end of that idea. You really have to be a TV tech to run anyone elses television. Needless to say, we watched no television that week.

The Mackay kids were pleasant and helpful most of the time. We had some minor run ins but they seemed to dissapate quickly. I have heard through the grapevine since their parents got home that I made them work really hard every day. Do you believe this story? I hung a sign the day I left reading, "If you drop it, pick it up. and the second line, "If you spill it wipe it up." I don't think they liked that to well. I think we had a good time in spite of the comedy of errors that I made when they told me, "We don't do it that way." My reply was always, "You do when I'm here". I took Jonathan to the Barnes and Noble Bookstore where we looked at books and purchased a couple of them for his birthday. He was really cute. I think the books are glued to his right arm now. I hope Cheryl and Lane had a great time as it will take me a week or so to recover from the work that they have to do everyday. Way to go Mom and Dad Mackay.