Unreasonable Expectations

Yesterday Lizzy was home and heard some lady scolding a little girl and thought it was related to New Bad Mom (Mandy). She heard the woman saying: "Sit on the steps with Nana. Sit down. Sit down. We're gonna have to get you a new babysitter because this isn't working out for Nana."

Last night I saw basically the same scene. Mandy was pacing around the parking lot talking on her cell phone. "Nana" was sitting on a step on a garbage bag smoking a cigarette and "Nay/Nay-Nay" was not interested in sitting beside Nana. Nay, who is apparently going to turn two next month, was more interested in running around and kept trying to go over to her mom. Nana kept saying "Nay-Nay sit by Nana. Momma's on the phone."

Today again Lizzy heard this scenario. The kid wanted to play in the dirt instead of sitting quietly on the step. Lizzy said, "In a weak moment I decided to be kind." Lizzy took down the toys we bought for her niece at Ikea and gave them to Nay to try to entertain her. Unfortunately Nana didn't want to get the toys dirty, so Lizzy was left trying to entertain Nay while Nana told her many stories. She learned that Mandy is a year younger than Lizzy, and Nay is one of four half-siblings from the dad who has 4 baby mamas who have blond hair and blue eyes. Mandy used to work at the mall but lost her job, so now she's a telemarketer six days a week. Nana loves Nay, but she gets into everything. Nana wants Nay to go to daycare. Nana used to weigh over 400 lbs, had back problems, her mom died, and her brother died. She used to be a bank teller and was in charge of the vault, but she couldn't go back to work and needs on the job training. Mandy's boyfriend is a Pizza Hut driver (which we knew from observing things) and not the baby daddy (which we observed based on the fact that Nay appears to be biracial).

Mandy and Mandy's boyfriend. He has a lot of stuff in the back of his truck.

Lizzy was getting ready to go inside when Gina came out. She had "crazy eyes." She talked about Mandy and Nana propping the door open (even though it was not propped at that time), Tamera telling on her, and she has to stay inside instead of going outside and enjoying herself because everyone keeps telling on her. She wandered off talking to herself.

The interaction ended with Lizzy getting a "stop by anytime you want" invite from Nana. I'm not sure how often she'll be taking her up on that offer.