So today I found out that my best friend, who is preggo, is having a little boy! This is her first child and she lives 7 hours away from me. Way too far. I don't like it. But I am super, duper excited about the baby! And I get to throw a baby shower! I threw her bachelorette party as well.... can't wait!
Also today I got to babysit these lovely boys that I have babysat for about 6 years now! They do not need me too often anymore but their parents are now going through a divorce and I am needed every now and then when one or the other parent is not available. It tears me up inside that this is happening to such an amazing family/couple but mistakes were made and, whether I like it or not, there are consequences when there are mistakes. I took the boys to Dominos, out for gelato, we played games (Speed, Egyptian Rat Screw, Chinese Checkers, & Stratego), and then it was off to bed. Immediately after putting them down the youngest shows up downstairs with his sad goog-ley eyes and stares at me. I stare back, planning on being un-relenting in the "I'm not tired" argument and making him go back to bed. But then instead of uttering the typical mantra he states "I miss my dad." Well that just about undoes me and he is allowed to snuggle with me for a bit and then I take him back upstairs and read him a chapter from a book. Spoiled little bugger. He probably said that on purpose! I miss those snuggles though ... he was 2 when I started babysitting for the family and he is now 8 soon to be 9 I believe. Crazy!
It is now 11:28pm and I am sitting in a dorm lobby semi-tutoring someone for the writing prompt of their MCAT test. They will be taking the test in just over a week and writing within a time limit is a real struggle for them. It is a struggle for me to help them as well because writing is 'simple' for me. Not that I am always good at it or that I stay on topic but I always have something to say! Even if it is not important or meaningful.
Right now they are taking a timed writing sample. Pretty sure they are overtime right now but they would not allow me to do the actual timing- makes them too nervous. It is a hard writing assignment though. You have to do things like:
Revolutions often destroy more than they create.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which a revolution might create more than it destroyed. Discuss what you think determines whether revolutions will be destructive or creative.
I tried to do some--- it is not fun. Doable but not fun. Practice should be helping a lot though. And discussing. At least I hope so cuz there is not much else I can do. They know how to write-- they just panic at the thought of the time-test.
I must take leave of you now.
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