A New Appreciation

Today I babysat 2 little girls, one was 3+ and the other was 15 months. They are VERY cute and I was looking forward to our day together, HOWEVER, in hindsight, I have to say I've forgotten a lot over the years. While the baby, Olivia, was eating dirt, the older one, Eliana, stripped to her princess panties and was doing a fairy dance in my (fortuantely clean) garment tops, yes, tops---plural. I had some baskets of laundry to fold and she found what appealed to her with glee. So for the next four hours she paraded around in flowy (not a real word, but, descriptive) whites watching Monsters Inc. and then Olivia, when she wasn't transferring dirt from the potted plant to a chair (she quit eating it after a few tastes) unfolded everything I folded SEVERAL times and said, "Look", like she had no idea how it happened. Good thing she is cute and they were both entertaining even if it was hard to get anything done.