More adventures in baby-sitting

I've had an interesting week... very busy, too. Sunday: Baby-sit while others watch the Super Bowl (the Super what? I haven't watched a football game since... since I lived at home!). Monday: Clean someone else's house. Tuesday: Baby-sit an 8-week old baby boy, Kevin. What a joy!! Let's see, wake up, eat, poop, play, sleep. Not a bad day; baby-sit, and get thrown up on by a 5-year old... not as much fun as you can imagine it to be, especially since I have a weak stomach for things spurting from other people's mouths. Wednesday: Nanny for the two cutest girls in town! Thursday: Baby-sit for 3 kids, ages 6-8. Ya, I know. Friday: Finally I have a day off, except it's not really off because I still went to a movie, dinner, then to walk off dinner around the mall. Then tomorrow it's a meeting at church, then to Old Fort if it doesn't snow to check out our camp site for this year's conference. Lots of fun, and if I can ever figure out how to do it, I'll have pictures... but in April. Then Sunday: Church and studying, and friends and studying. Toss in a bit of roommate sickness, laundry, apartment hunting, and organizing the black hole under my bed, it's been a pretty busy week!! Happy Birthday to mama!! She'll be -- this year!
"They tell you that in all change there are two elements, that which is changed and that which changes it. Each agent of change is itself determined by some higher agent. Can this go on ad infinitum? Oh, no, they say, that would not give the finality that thought demands. But does thought demand it? Why shouldn't the chain go on for ever?"
Graham Greene is probably one of the best writers I have ever read. I'm currently reading a collection of short stories (and they are short!!), which are mostly lonely, and always have a meaning just behind the words. My favorites: The Hint of an Explanation (great for thinking extra hard about religion and what it all means, how we got here, and what to do while we're here); Alas, Poor Maling (it's just a great fart story); Under the Garden (just a good story to think about, also); May We Borrow Your Husband (a good story about trying to understand marriage- "The only love which has lasted is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship."). There's still a few stories left, so I'm sure I'll have more to add to that list. I can't wait to devour all of Greene's other writings!!
Enjoy!