adventures in babysitting...

tonight, i'm the babysitter...

for christmas, i gave the parents of the family that i live with gift certificates for a hot date... okay - i gave them gift certificates to places - it's up to them for the hot date part...

the other part of the deal is that i'm the babysitter... so i get to have the boys for the night... 4 of them... i didn't really have babysitters growing up much... but it's fun... getting away with stuff you could never get away with normally... i live with the boys, so i know what they can get away with and what they can't, though...

but our plan for the evening is... each boy gets a choice... one will choose dinner... one will choose dessert... one will choose the movie and one will choose junk food for when we watch the movie... i've already figured out who will choose what - but since everyone gets a choice, everyone has to be okay with the other choices... that way, we don't argue about what is for dinner and what movie we watch...

i only wish we could do dessert-first dinner tonight - that might be too much for them to handle... but i heard a great idea that i totally plan to use when i have a family o' my own... you eat dessert first, and if you have room, you eat your regular food... of course, i will only do this once a month or so - but it will be done!!

i'm really looking forward to the time with them... i think it will be fun... and i'm glad that "mom and dad" get some time for themselves, too... i told them they're not allowed to come home until way later than what is acceptable...

i just hope we don't have to go through the same kind of adventures in babysitting as chris (elisabeth shue) did in the movie... but here are some great quotes from it...

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

Gang Leader: Don't f*** with the Lords of Hell.
Chris: Don't f*** with the babysitter.

Get out of my house!

Janitor #1: Drop it kid!
Brenda: Why?
Janitor #1: Because we've got to kill it.
Brenda: [shocked] Why would you want to kill a poor defenseless kitten?
[both janitors start laughing loudly]
Janitor #2: A kitten? That's no kitten. You're holding a jumbo sized sewer rat!

that's enough for now... i've got to get home... hopefully, even if tonight turns into adventures in babysitting, that it doesn't end up as don't tell mom the babysitter's dead