Personal Essay: A Personal Narrative

Last summer I started to nanny three boys, Landon 12, Jaden 7 and Devon 6, Monday-Friday. I was there from eight in the morning to five or six at night. It was a struggle sometimes watching three boys but it was also very entertaining. During the summer we did a lot of things because it was summer and didn’t just want to sit in their house everyday. They live kind of in the middle of nowhere and their house is back into trees, their back yard is woods, so with their parents having three boys they got them each a four wheeler and their dad and his friend made trails in the woods for them. The one day I went over it rained that night and the next morning for a while then started to get nice and hot out. Two of the boys had the idea to go mudding and of …show more content…
So I wanted to make a game out of them getting washed off because they hate taking showers, so I went and got water balloons and we filled them up. Filling them up though was a struggle because their house is newly built so everywhere was dirt or mud and we couldn’t fill the balloons in the house or else water would be everywhere. We ended up filling up the balloons on the side of the house where the hose are hooked up at. After filling up like 20 balloons we all started to slip because the dirt turned into mud. They started their little water balloon fight and one they were all gone they came running back to fill more. Jaden laughing “Guys I’m sinking!” we all started to laugh his ankles were all under mud. He tried to get out and that when it turned into a little mud fight, Devon was helping him get out Jaden goes “Oh no Devon there’s a bug on you” then threw a handful of mud on his back.
I was laughing so much I couldn’t stop them. They went on and on for about 20 minutes then I started to get scared they would throw mud at the house “Alright boys let’s stop and get washed up and go