Just give me a minivan and tapered leg jeans

This past week I had the awesome joy of having my two nieces, Jenna, 12 and Jordan, 6, all to myself for 6 days! A soon to be first grader and a preteen with no cable, no amusement parks, and no fast food, I thought it was going to be quite the feat. There wasn't a moment of down time.....at least not for me. So what did we do? We started everyday off with VBS which was so great, because my littlest got to hear the good news and received her own good book and my oldest got to hear the good news, help out, and get out of her comfort zone. I don't know very many preteens who are excited about choreographed kids songs. Everyday there was home-cooked lunch and dinner and activities in the afternoon. I haven't been so worn-out in a long time, but it was so fun. We did everything from swimming, bowling, sno-cones, going to the zoo, to having a taste at our local chocolate shop. And of course they made sure to squeeze in some time for guitar hero. :) My littlest being only 6 but very independent, want to play the notes for herself and me to strum. I didn't think she could do, but she did! Who knew. Being from Houston, my nieces were very confused as to why they saw the same cars driving by the sno-cone place on our main street one night. Thus I informed them of cruising and even took them to do some of their own. It was so funny to watch them make their cruising faces, especially with Jordan in her booster seat. My little ladies were so sweet and only had a couple times each day where I needed to smooth some roughened edges and give someone a talk. Maybe my parents won't have to wait five years for grandkids from me.......we'll see.