Fun Aunt and Niece Facts That I Have Learned

If you take a walk you quickly learn that you end up carrying the weight for two....yourself and carrying the niece.  A positive to this is that you got your workout in for the day and a negative is that your arms will feel like lead weights in being sore the next day.  Aunts without kids usually don't have strollers lying around.

You learn that you are the cool factor in your nieces family life.  You are not a parent or grand parent, you are there to entertain and to just be cool in their eyes.  When you babysit them or their parents are just not around, they don't see you as a babysitter or parent, but just the Aunt who happens to be an adult, so its acceptable, but you realize you make your niece feel cool and grown up even though you know you are there to supervise them, but you secretly like being thought of as the cool one.  LOL

One of the biggest things that makes you cool is that you have a whole room in your house that dedicated to fun called the fun room.  It is a child's dream world in there.  You realize that kids only see the physical things to make an impression on them at such a young age, so you try to put physical things in the fun room that will lead them to greater thoughts later on.

You realize you have to be on your Ps and Qs in everything that you say because you may think they aren't listening, but minutes later they will repeat something even if just one word that you said that stuck out to them.  You realize because you are the cool family factor they are trying to be like you.   You learn to be more aware of what you do and say, and you secretly know you aren't really that cool...if they only knew. :-)

You realize that if you eat something you have to be prepared to share some of whatever you are eating realizing that your niece will probably only take a few bites and be done and realize the rest is wasted and not be annoyed.  You realize that as the Aunt this only happens at random times not all of the time like a Mom.  You then realize that is why a lot of moms are in shape.  Besides chasing their kids around, they only get to eat half of their food.  :-)

You realize that your niece prefers sweets while you prefer savory and that your niece likes cooking like you even though she is too young.  Her favorite cabinet is your spice cabinet.  Put us together and a food metaphor would be sweet and sour chicken, complimentary spices working together.