First families are the best! Right off I started babysitting for this one family. Two pretty cool parents and 4 kids. I continued to take care of them— until they were ——-some place else.
5 years actually. I started when I was 14. The kids were young and for that matter so was I. We sorta grew up together. I was more like a big sister—my heart glows warm when I think of them—all 6 of them.
Mike worked for that highfalutin company and Ann was a busy stay at home mom. Plus they got into building homes.
At first I just babysat, but then I started keeping house for them too. Great times with those characters. But daggone they sure did take a lot to keep up with. I’d no sooner vacuum the carpet and they’d come in and dump a pile of sand on it 🤦♀️
Eventually I started doing the clean up in the newly built houses. They weren’t small homes either—plus they kept getting bigger. But I learned a lot and paid attention. I know—what was there to pay attention to? Painting walls, baseboards, trim. House layout.
But I want to stay with the family for now—- at one point they sold their current home and had not yet finished the next one. This called for a solution. So mike bought a good size—though not large, camper and parked it on a future house seat. What was suppose to take a couple of months to finish the new house, turned into 6 months—ughhh I thought I was going to pop!! Maybe it was a year or 5–it seemed forever. The camper stunk from just too many people in it. The kids were getting cagey too.
At Christmas I was watching them while Mike and Ann went out. The two oldest were really cranked up. That was the only time I ever spanked someone else’s kid. Dave was the oldest—and pushing buttons because he was figuring he was getting too old for me to tell him what to do. The whole camper was shaking from the ruckus. No warning was going to settle them down. Sooo he got a couple of butt swats.
When Mike and Ann got home they were pretty upset with those kids as they knew that for as long as I had watched them there had never been reason for such! I felt bad because I loved those kids… Mike said from now on “what ever vivienne says you do! If she says jump—you say how high!!”
Well none of that went on ever again and we finally got them into their next house. Just in time to start on the big house. 🤷♀️ I don’t know—the biggest house. Anyway—
Beautiful life 