Watch as I become mi madre.....

My hands are so dry that they are cracking and bleeding. It's like something out of a bad horror movie on the plague. Luckily I found a hand lotion (sweet pea) that is the scent-equivalent of Herbal Essences. Magnifico.

I had a friend that always used to tell me that the smell of my hair reminded him too much of an ex of his. I wonder if we have reached the point yet where Herbal Essences reminds him of me instead of her.....or at least when he accidentally catches a whiff of my hair he is not repulsed. I don't think he and I will always be good friends. I would like to, but so much of the time we were friends I think he felt like he had to be the adult, the designated driver, and generally the caretaker of the rest of us. It seems like he almost resents it now. Of course we never asked or expected him to fill that role, we were relentless in nagging him to drink with us, it was just in his nature to be overly protective and overly generous and everything good and adult like that. I remember once when we stayed at J-Mu's cabin he even dragged B-hawk across the room by his neck when he tried to crawl in bed with Samantha and I. And B-hawk screamed like the girl in the first Jurassic Park. Boo, hiss...I hate growing apart.

In any case, this nannying job has convinced me that I don't think I want to have kids of my own anymore. Not that I planned to have them for at least fifteen years. They're just too tiring. I can't imagine coming home after a day of work only to be faced with four hours of warring with children. They become your entire life. I already feel like Till and Te are my entire life and they're not even my children! BUT. That being said, nannying also has me convinced that I should have kids. I am impossibly good with them. I am stricter than their parents by far, but kids need boundaries to function correctly and they are becoming better behaved already. Aaaand, we are still having quite a lot of fun. Well...they are having fun. And I am beginning to. Today we went to the park and we played soccer. Tomorrow we are going to Nursery Rhyme Time at the library. And since its the last day of our week, I am actually going to let them watch a Madeline/Veggie Tales movie.