First – if you read my other blogs you know why I have been gone for so long and I won’t be rehashing it. I am sorry for the long absence, but it could not be helped.

today my brothers girlfriend -the mother of my two adorable nieces – called me. They are moving (finally) out of my fathers home – I will get back to why this is good news in a bit – anyway they are moving on the eighth of November to Alberta. Its a four hour trip there and back. My Brother’s GF asked me to baby sit their daughters while they move as they will have to make two trips, and asking a two year old and a two month old to sit in a vehicle for 16 hours is absolutely impossible.

but….

as horrible as it sounds, I do NOT want to babysit. even knowing that I will not see the girls for months or more, I do not want to watch them. I have kids now, NOT babies, and babies are damn hard work. Then there is the fact that EVERY SINGLE TIME Bro and his girl have asked me to watch the girls, they have NOT returned to get them at the time they told me. NOT ONCE. and they don’t call – they go so far as to turn off their cell  – and then tell me it has died. I know the dead battery thing is a lie as they once told me oh, the battery died, only to make a call five minutes later on it.

They say I will only be watching the girls for the morning and “part” of the afternoon. If I take their previous actions into consideration, this translates to me watching the girls for the morning, the afternoon and the evening too.

I don’t want this!

And yet, what choice do I have? I can’t make two babies sit in a car that long, its cruel.