Story Time!

Once upon a time there were two young children commonly known as Ally-Monster and Grumpy-Grace. One day, their mom, forced to go camping for a week, was left with little ideas of what to do with the children. Thankfully, the girls’ wonderful, fun, favorite aunt stepped in to save the day. When the aunt arrived, the girls welcomed her with hugs and cuddles. Quite a surprise, since their nicknames described them so perfectly. After a day of observing and helping, she felt confident in her babysitting abilities. They started the week with a trip to the library and nearby park.

After lunch, Grumpy-Grace went down for a nap with no problems. This was a little puzzling. The aunt was sure there would be crying. During the nap, Ally-Monster wanted to paint the ceramic tea set the magnificent aunt brought for her. While they painted the aunt explained how Ally-Monster needed to be careful with the tea set, because it could break and she couldn’t buy a new one. Ally-Monster’s reply was: Ok. But, I guess if I do break it, you could just buy me a pony. Sweet little girl...

Once the tea set was painted, the aunt and Ally-Monster had to test it out with the first official tea party. But of course, no tea party is complete without banana-chocolate chip muffins! So the girls baked them first. When the muffins were finished, the girls were ready to begin the tea party.

The rest of the week went on in a similar fashion: library, park, tea party, library, park, tea party. With Barbie Princess and Dora movies thrown in as needed.

One terrific Thursday morning, Ally-Monster decided she wanted to paint her nails beautiful colors. She chose purple, green, pink, and silver. The aunt was extremely impressed with her lack of mess-making.

Yes, she was trying to show off her nails, but didn’t realize the camera only saw the palm of her hand…

When the week finally came to an end, the super aunt was shockingly sad to leave, especially when the girls were less grumpy and monsterish, and more like this:



The aunt realized she loved being a “stay-at-home-mom” for a week, and is slightly sad she won’t get to have that career for a few more years. But at least she has 20+ wonderful first grade children during the day, and that is pretty fun, too.

The End