Thrown to the wolves

Four days in and I was left to fend for myself with the boys. Ami and Curtis were off to Italy for three days and I was put in charge. No car and no idea how to get anywhere but the park across the street, we were pretty much stuck inside the apartment.Did I mention the apartment is on the third level of a an assisted living community.. so some how I have to keep the boys quiet while trapped inside. And having not been without mom for a year now the wild boys were not ready to listen to me.
My first day in, my only saving grace was the Wii, which can only be played on the weekend and being sunday I let them take full advantage. However not wanting their eyeballs to dry up I dragged them to the park for a bit where one of them almost took out his eye on a tree branch.. lovely. Hoping to end the day with a nice quiet movie night no movies would play in the dvd player.. "the disc you are trying to play does not work in this region". So disappointed the boys reluctantly went to bed. From sun up to sun down the following day it was all about how to get more Halloween candy. In order to create a method for the madness we made everything a game win the game, win a prize, they loved it. However by the end of the day they were strung out on candy, bouncing off the walls.
Mid day one of the boys came to me with their mom's BROKEN cell phone that she had given me to use if I needed her. Thinking I was going to have to tell her one of the boys broke her phone I excused myself to the bathroom and cried. Ready to lose my mind, turns out it was one of their old cell phones PTL. So we called them up and the boys all said hi, with the phone in his hand the littlest one dropped it on the floor and it went dead : ). Although the phone was not broken it would not let me do anything more without a pin, which I did not have. Over to the computer we skyped them and mid conversation the computer died as well as I later found out was connected to the house phone. So with no way to get a hold of them we went on braving the remainder of our adventure.
Day three was the best thank the Lord. We had a picnic in the park, build tents and finally found a movie that worked for movie night.
Needless to say it was a crazy couple days without ALL the hair pulling details. I was so exhausted and overjoyed when Ami and Curtis come home that night.