How do I keep myself entertained while babysitting for ten hours?

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lauren

I'm 17 and I'm babysitting a 10 and 8 year old. The day seems to take forever and I get very tired at times. When we are inside they entertain each other and they have fun together. YES I AM ALWAYS WATCHING THEM. But during the times I'm not involved in their fun, what can I do to keep myself entertained? They aren't even awake yet, so what can I do?

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Pinterest, reading, drawing, homework, watching your favorite t.v. show, talking on the phone, cleaning... Then things to do with the kids: Bike rides, baking, crafts, stories, dancing, board games, helping them with homework, making tents, swimming, singing, renting a new movie for them, ect...

A new baby, a toddler and two older children what to do?

ladybugzpr

Now that it's summer vacation I'm having a hard time thinking of stuff to do with the older children that the two little ones can enjoy as well. I'll be by myself (husband working) most days with 4 kids ages 11, 10, 2 and 4 months. We can't just stay home all the time or we'll all go crazy. I have the two older kids going to camp a few times a week but on the days they're not at camp I need some ideas that would be enjoyable for us all. We live by the ocean but I'm fearful of having the toddler and the baby by myself at the beach, same thing with the pool.

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- i know by me there's a county zoo that's donation based, zoo's are good for all ages.

- google your town, county or state recreation and parks department and see if they have anything interesting, you'll at least find a few places to have a picnic or throw a ball around.

- go buy a $10 water game (slip and slide is still a surprising hit)

- check out Pinterest, there are so many crafty ideas posted, including my favorite one - http://www.curbly.com/users/diy-maven/posts/11380-how-to-make-glow-stick-lanterns

- break out the old school! my kids and I LOVE playing my original NES - sometimes they prefer it over the Wii and get just as excited about it as i did when i was their age. i'm sure there's something from your past you loved doing that they would love just as much.

- water balloons work for about 15 minutes, however, clean up of broken water balloons all over your yard lasts at least 30. ;) chalk a target on your garage door or side of the house to make it more fun.

- your kids wont like it, but i'm sure there's SOMETHING that needs to be reorganized. IDK about you but with my older girls that's an all day project i end with a glass of wine, but I at least feel accomplished when i look at it the next day.

- i know you're fearful of going to the beach with the 2 little ones, but keep in mind you have 2 older ones (god sents) that are capable of helping you carry stuff or the second eye if you need to get lunch ready and stuff. make sure they get a special thank you for helping out. :)

- sleepovers, play dates, the availability for "traditional weekend plans" just opened up to "any day" plans. dont forget the tent making in the living room!

- speaking of tents, throw one in the back yard and let the older ones sleep out there for a night.

either way, you'll def be outdoors so grab yourself the port-a-crib and a bug net to go over it and let the little guy hang out. Good luck!!

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What did women do during the gold rush?

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MaRiLYn <3

For example, what did they cook?
also, what did the women who were bartenders wear?

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Women were still mostly expected to not get involved and many of the earliest Gold Camps were all male domains. When women did get involved they did the grudge work: washing clothes and cooking and cooking during that era was labor intensive. In the crudest of camps one pot meals were the norm that meant one big pot, lots of water and the women or men would chop up meat and limited veggies (mostly potato and parsnips and turnips) into a cast iron pot and boil it all. I am tiored and weary so see link beow for Pioneer Cooking.
The other use for the few women in camp was for sex an activity out of fashion in 2010 but back then it was recognized as a normal human function.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#pioneer
""Food historians confirm average '49ers did not cook. These male-dominated make-shift communities were served by a variety of inexpensive public eateries.

"Neither Kenoffel's Spokane Cafe nor Truax's English Kitchen claimed, as so many miners' restaurants did, to be the "one and only," the old original "Delmonico's of the West," "only beter." Like the large majority of mining camp eating houses, they unpretentiously provided ordinary everyday all-American meals fo bacons and eggs, soups, stews, steaks, roast beef, chops, potatoes, --and almost always oysters, of course--and the like for reasonable prices. There never was a day on which an argonaut could not get a substantial fill in San Francisco for a dollar. A full meal in Virginia City could run as little as fifty cents, one dollar for both breakfast and dinner if paid in advance. In rawer camps like Telluride, one-dollar to two-fifty-a-plate was the list price...Saddle Rock Restaurant advertised a dinner for a quarter. The mining towns teemed with cheap eateries. In fact, San Francisco and the rawest camps of the Sierra slope teammed with homey eating houses (or tents). They were "numerious, plentious, inviting and even cheap." Restaurants were among the very first businesses at the scene of every strike. Keeping a public tables was one of the first nonmining occupations to be found in a hundred "No Name cities." A "restaurant rush" followed closely on--when it did not lead in!-- the provisions rush. There are more than a few examples of "starving" forty-niners and Pike's Peakers who allayed their famine not by grubbing on wild plants, snaring beasts, seeking charity, or by fortuitiously buying a sack of flour, but by throwing their weary legs under a table at a not-too-distant restaurant. The reason for this is not obscure. In a society in which domestic cooking remaied woman's work, the first flood of population in every mining region was overwhelmingly male...'There was no such thing as a home to be found. Scarcely even a proper house could be seen. Both dwellings and places fo busines were tiher common canvas tents, or small rough board shanties, for frame buildings of one story...Meals were taken at eating houses, of which there was an immense number in every protion of the town. They were of every descrption, good, bad, and indifferent, and kept by every variety of people...'"
---Bacon, Beans, and Galantines: Food and Foodways on the Western Mining Frontier, (p. 152-153)
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what are some of the things people used during the manifest destiny?

Princess M

i am doing a cotolog for the time period of the manifest destiny and want to include items that they actuallly used. things like clothing, cooking tools, toys for kids, also bigger things like horse and buggies etc.

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Per Person:
150 lbs flour or hard bread
25 lbs bacon
10 lbs rice
15 lbs coffee
2 lbs tea
25 lbs sugar
1/2 bushel dried peas
1/2 bushel dried fruit
2 lbs soleratus (baking soda)
10 lbs salt
1/2 bushel corn meal
1/2 bushel corn
small keg vinegar
pepper

Miscellaneous per family:
rifle,ball, powder
8-10 gallon keg for water
1 axe
1 hatchet
1 spade
2 or 3 augers
1 hand saw
1 whip or cross cut saw
1 plow mold
at least 2 ropes
mallet for driving picket pins
matches carried in bottles, corked

Clothing per person:
Men: 2 wool shirts, 2 wool undershirts
Women: 2 wool dresses
Both: 2 pair drawers, 4 pair wool socks, 2 pair cotton socks, 4 colored
handkerchiefs, 1 pair boots and shoes, poncho, brimmed hat

Sewing supplies placed in buckskin or stout cloth bag:
stout linen thread, large needles, thimble, bit of bee's wax, few buttons,
buckskin for patching, paper of pins

Personal items:
1 comb and brush, 2 toothbrushes, 1 lb castile soap, 1 belt knife, 1 flint
stone per man

Cooking:
Baking pan-used for baking and for roasting coffee; mess pan-wrought iron or
tin; 2 churns-one for sweet, one for sour milk; 1 coffee pot--tin cup with
handle, 1 tin plate, knives; 1 coffee mill (forks, spoons per person); 1
camp kettle, fry pan, and wooden bucket for water.

Bedding per person: 1 canvas, 2 blankets, 1 pillow, one tent per family.

Medical supplies: iron rust, rum and cognac (both for dysentary), calomel,
quinine for ague, epsom salts for fever, castor oil capsules.

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