Babysitting at Life Group

This past Monday, the twins and I started babysitting for our Life Group (instead of adult Sunday schools, our church has small Bible studies that meet during the week.) Their prior babysitters were college students who were going to be too busy this semester to continue. When the leaders found out that we had not 1 but 3 babysitters in our family, they asked if we’d be willing to take over.

It was a tough decision for us girls. J Of course, we said yes! Every other week the Life Group meets at church and we keep the kids in the nursery. The other weeks the adults meet in one house while we watch the kids at a nearby house.

For our first night, we were at the church and had 5 kids, ages 5 and under. Only one of the little boys cried when his Mommy left (little T in the orange shirt above.) But he calmed down quickly once I read him a story and the other kids did great.

Photo Credit: Roma.

Rubia having a pretend picnic with some of the kids.

Photo Credit: Roma.

About half-way through the evening I gave the kids a snack. As you can see from this picture, I think they took out every single toy in the room. J

Photo Credit: Roma.

Towards the end, the kids were getting a little bit rowdy/stir crazy. So I put in a Veggie Tales movie and cleaned up the room a bit.

Of course, being young kids they didn’t watch the movie for too long before they were pulling out toys again. J But I think playing with toys is better than watching movies any day!

Overall the evening went very well and we are very excited to be the regular babysitters from now on!