A couple weeks ago my sister-in-law Kathleen called and needed a caregiver for her 8-year-old son Evan for the work week she would be in Olympia. Evan is having Fall Break from school and is staying here until Friday. How great is that? He is just the age of the girls I interact with in my calling at church now, and he's totally fun. In fact, Allan and I have always hoped to have more time with him and create a better relationship with him. Well, guess what? This is our chance.
I have been taking him on my usual outings, and he's helpful and fitting right in. Tuesday he helped me with my volunteer food-delivery gig, and today he came to the community garden and helped me trim back some plants and bring some hopeful herbs back to my house for planting. He was cold today, though, and looked about ready for a blizzard by the time we left the car for good. Tomorrow we are planning a trip on the ferry and to the Science Center, the touristy stuff. Hopefully it will be a bit nicer out for our trip. But if not, it will be a Northwest Experience.
Evan asked if we could get Papa John's breadsticks, so of course we had to make some of Lorraine's breadsticks instead. Everyone in the house was grateful Evan wanted breadsticks. After dinner I had to make a second batch (recipe here), because the absentee family members (Justin and Cecilie) didn't get any. It's a good thing Evan was a sport about rolling out those little things.
What would you do with an 8-year-old on hand?
2 comments:
Glad to hear things went well!!!
Better than well. It was fun!
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