Like most kids under the age of 16, you would love to have a little extra pocket change for finer things in life, like a milkshake, a 45 record (like Bobby Sherman or the Monkee's) the candy store for a green apple Jolly Rancher or maybe if you had enough you could go to the local dept store(which for me was a store called Alec--it was one of the first Target like stores in the area) and buy that Elton John poster you have been coveting(have I dated myself yet?)

I babysat, a lot. kids from Church, for church events, or I should say parties that involved adult tasty beverages and people who just all happen to go to church together on Sunday. I made 25 cents an hour, yes you read that right, didn't matter how many kids I had, still 25 cents. Now on New Year's Eve after midnight, which now we are running into my birthday, I was given 50 cents for the holiday.

I don't know how many years I was stuck on my birthday with a house full of crazy kids, some sleeping, some crying and some so outta control that they were peeing out the front door.

What was I thinking?