Parents Are Gone, Kids Will Play
My parents are gone for the weekend. They left this morning at about 5am and won't be back until 5pm sunday night. So that means I get to take care of my brothers for about four days. Or so I thought, turns out adopted grandma Bertha will be spending most of the time here.
Not that I mind. I was thinking I'd take care of them, make sure they were fed, shove them out the door for school, keep them away from matches, and generally play the part of parental unit. But instead she'll be doing that and it looks like I'll be living as usual. Was odd when I found out, mom said Bertha was feeling like she wasn't needed so I should make sure she feels needed.
Generally that might not mean let her do all the work, but when it was mentioned in the context of 'these are the things that need to be done and this is why you don't have to do them', well that sounds like let her do all the work to me. Not that I'm complaining 
A few years back my parents went to france for a week, and we had almost two feet of snow while they were gone. It's snowing right now, perhaps we're looking at a repeat 
Right before they left my dad gave me a packet of stuff in case they didn't come back. On the one hand, it's good to accept your own mortality and plan ahead like that. But on the other hand, why is this only mentioned when they are leaving? Shouldn't the location of such information be known all the time anways?
So I get to play almost parent for the weekend, yeah me.