In an attempt to have everyone survive the summer, I've hired the nine year old from down the block. She comes to my house a couple of days every week for an hour or two and plays with my children: soccer, trains, tea parties, whatever... for this, I pay her $2 an hour. She's saving up for a new bike. She may get there by the end of the summer if my kids keep up the attitude.
However, the other day I was chatting with her mom about schedules and she mentioned how lovely it was to not have her daughter underfoot all day. So now I'm thinking - she should pay me $1 an hour to get her kid out of the house, and then I'll pay her $2 for playing with my kids. Sound fair?
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I concur!
I think you can put her in a box and ship her to Georgia. And I will pay her nothing to occupy my younguns as obviously she will be on a vacation. Even if all she gets to see of Georgia is a mountanous pile of preschool toys.
And please, if you tell me I already have my own built in babysitters with Brandon and Allison, I may just have to slap you.
Virtually, of course.
I'm sure she'd be happy to go on a working vacation to Georgia...
I'll talk to her mom. You'll pay her return postage?
@joy: THINK, WOMAN. THINK! Get the useful 9-year-old in exchange for Allison! That way, the useful girl even gets a bed.
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