The One With All the Babysitting

Date: 7/8/2019

I’m babysitting a little girl that looks exactly like Lucy (but isn’t supposed to be her). I’m feeding her and she keeps doing weird stuff. Her dad thinks that this makes her really smart, so I play along ... I’m watching another little girl (possibly Ivanna). I’m talking to her mom about how big she is. The mom tells me that she’s potty training, so I’ll need to keep that in mind ... I’m at what’s supposed to be Shanon’s to babysit the (actual) Pretel’s. She and Juan are both still there. Juan is at a table doing paperwork, and Shanon is tidying up the kitchen. I’ve apparently made dinner. Alfie walks into the room and says, “That was the worst food I’ve ever eaten in my life.” I respond by saying, “That’s because you’re the pickiest child in the world and I can’t get you to eat anything I make!” Juan leaves the room without saying a word. I realize a few seconds too late that I probably shouldn’t have yelled at him in front of his parents ... I’m at a kitchen table with Renee. She has Mallory’s art ready for me (the commissions I asked her to make). Renee hands me three small pictures of myself (they’re photographs, not paintings), and for some reason, I don’t question it. I wait for the one of me with Spielberg, but I never get to see it.