On call babysitter

The one good thing for Bruce and Candy is that we live on farm so when Bruce needed to pop out one evening for half an hour and Candy was out, I was asked to come over just to be in the house while the girls are in bed. I don't mind helping out like that and it hasn't happened before plus I was also able to come over in my pjs with my dinner and just sit there eating it while he popped out. It was basically what I would be doing at home anyway and it felt like he was back in no time at all. On Saturday I took the girls to see the Winchester rodeo and Bruce and Candy came along as well. I went to it last year with Candy so it was nice this year that Bruce could come along as well. Bruce knew a lot more about the events so I spent most of our time together with him explaining what was happening. There was a scary moment when a bull wouldn't go back into the pens after being ridden and it ended up charging at one of the people on horse back pushing the horse up against the fence. Not surprisingly after that the horse was very wary of all the bulls and didn't get more than 20m away when rounding them up. Sometimes they use the technique of releasing a second bull into the arena to try and guide the other one to show it where it is meant to be exiting. It doesn't always work and there was a couple times where they had up to 4 in there before they all left together as a herd. Eliza wasn't walking last year so this time it was a lot harder with a mobile 2 year old running around. At one point she went a joined two other girls in their gazebo and started playing with the play dough they had which resulted in their mum pulling out a mini camping chair for her to sit on alongside them. It was so sweet and it reminded me how much I love her confidence around other children and people. She did throw a few tantrums when I stopped her running into a whole other seating area though. Bruce paid for Cassidy to go on a huge inflatable slide that she had been begging to go on since we got there. After a few minutes we realised she was too scared to come down and it took us asking one of the older children who were on it to go down with her before she was willing to slide down. When she then begged to go up again we all gave a definitive "no" seeing as we were there for almost 15 minutes before she came down. It's amazing how easily they forget fear and past experiences sometimes. The girls and I have had the best Sunday today and spent almost 5 hours at the beach. I took us a picnic, blanket and all the sand pit toys to use and we all had a brilliant time. I do love how most of our best days together are free except for the petrol cost.Read more