Friday, June 23, 2006

Sad

So last night I babysat for these 2 kids. Justin is in the Elder's Quorum Presidency so that means I get to do stuff like that all the time. But this time was interesting. The family is totally inactive. And very unstable. I babysat for a 5 year old girl and a 2 week old girl. Both of the children were dirty. The 5 year old is very obviously emotionally disturbed. She swears and has very bad manners. But she and Caroline played well. And Caroline is a good girl. She would say things like, "instead of saying that bad word, why don't you just use a better one?" And when the girl yelled at Hilton to go away she said, "Instead of yelling at Hilton, why don't you say, Hilton please go play somewhere else for a while?" I was so proud of my little girl. Something is connecting when I teach her! The thing that broke my heart though is this teeny tiny baby. She was premature, the mom smoked the entire pregnancy, and both parents smoke in the house. I have absolutely NO problems with people who don't go to church. That is totally fine, but when they put their children at risk by smoking and drinking and doing drugs, it ticks me off. This baby reeked of smoke. I just held her the whole time. When the father came to pick her up, he asked how she was, and said he was sorry because she is colicky and cries all the time. She didn't cry once for the entire 4 hours I had her. I told Justin I just wanted to keep those kids forever and love them. It made me so sad to give them back...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is hard to see situations like that. I am glad that you had the chance to watch them just to help them feel of your spirit and goodness and feel a little love.

Nicole said...

You'll have to post a picture of yourself...I'm dying to see what it looks like. I've let my hair grow out, but I have this gift certificate to a fancy shmancy day spa/salon and I'm itching to use it on a haircut.

Anonymous said...

It breaks my heart when children come into the world with such saddness to start with. Life is hard enough without having so much of your free agency taken away so soon. It's not fair to people like my friend who have been trying for years to get pregnant and can't. It makes me think that they must have a great mission ahead for their life to start off so rough.

Nicole said...

I just realized I posted a comment about your hair in the wrong spot...sorry.