I had a great time today. :mrgreen:

I was babysitting , my niece, and I wanted to take her out somewhere. It was too late for the Zoo or Aquarium so I decided to take her to Incredible Pizza.

I didn’t want to go by ourselves so I invited my cousin’s , Jacob and Taylor, to come along. Jacob and Taylor are my second cousins, but they know me as their auntie. They are 11 and 9, respectively and McKayla is almost 21 months.

None of us had ever been to Incredible Pizza before, but we enjoyed ourselves. Jacob and Taylor rode the bumper cars and go karts. We played miniature golf, bowling, and tons of games. McKayla rode a mechanical horse, carousel, train, and I held her in my lap while we were playing a racing game. I let her steer.

We stayed at Incredible Pizza for over four hours. Afterwards, we went to the pet store and got some food for my snakes and gecko. The kids were excited about getting to feed my animals. They loved it.

It was good for me to get out of the house. I needed it and spending it with some of my favorite kids made a huge difference. It made me feel better than I’ve felt in a long time. They haven’t been able to spend much time with me the past several months because I was too depressed to leave the house the majority of the time or I was too irritable to let them come over to hang out.

I don’t think I can have children of my own1 but having them in my life takes some of the sting out of it. I being an aunt and I’m good at it.

On this day..


  1. which is probably for the best [↩]