Substitute Mom

I got to spend the last few days playing "mom" to 4 amazing kids, and I loved every minute of it. I had really been missing my nieces and nephew from home so God totally blessed me through this time. Sam is in 8th grade, Allison 6th, Julia 5th, and Laura 2nd.


The Akers parents spent a few days in Guam and asked if I would like to stay in their house and make sure their kids didn't kill each other. Other than playing a game with weapons where the point of the game was to "kill" each other and be the last man alive, no one was seriously injured. The biggest problem we had during my stay was when I flooded the bathroom by taking a too long of shower! Whoops! But the girls were sweet enough to help me clean it up.


The days consisted of waking the kids up, making sure they ate breakfast, doing hair, getting lunches ready, taking them to school, coming home from school to play foursquare, go for walks, eat dinner, pray together, play games, watch movies, and just hang out.


Oh and one of the best parts was I got to sleep in a HUGE bed that is from the states and soooooo comfortable. I had anywhere from 1-3 girls sleeping with me each night :-)


And the parents room has aircon, so I got to actually sleep without sweating and having a fan blasting on me. It was nice. The last day I let Sam drive the car just around the subdivision. It's a stick and he's never driven before so it was a little....uhh...interesting. But actually he did a great job and didn't kill it once....but we didn't tell his parents so shhhhh! :-)



It was such a refreshment and encouragment to me to spend time with them and made me long even more to be a mom someday :-)