Home alone with the kids

Janet is in Tampa, Florida for 4 days on a training mission and I am left to mind the twins. Because my job gives me some flexibility, I'm able to get them on the school bus and be home when they arrive from school. The arrive part doesn't always work out. I had problems with one of my accounts a couple of times and had to drive Junction City, KS. a couple of times, which is a couple of hours away. Luckily we have back up (aunts, uncle, mother-in-law, neighbor,the guy who gives out candy, etc.)
Aunt Felice will not let their friend, Jaysa, come over to play, because she doesn't want to be responsible for someone's kid, when she doesn't know the mother and doesn't want the mother to come storming over with accusations of irresponsibility if something were to happen to the child.(that and "Desperate Housewives" is on)
So, I pull into the driveway and Annie is at the window, with her mouth impossibly wide open, crying "I want Jaaaaaay...saaaaaaaa" Maybe she thinks Jasa's mom will hear her cries and come rushing right over with waivers so that Felice will watch her daughter.
Then Hallie says " Annie, lets play on the trampoline"(formerly called the jumpoline) and also Annie sees that I'm chewing gum and asks for a piece. So it's "Jaysa who?"
As I'm cooking dinner(cooking is not in Felice's contract)Annie comes in with about 3 lbs. of gum stuck in her hair. It's in there good and I have no idea on how to remove it without cutting it. So I grab the scissors and Felice yells "NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!"
Now Felice always has these home remedies(I know. Why didn't I ask her before I grabed the scissors)She informs me that peanut butter applied to the gum and hair will make it possible to comb the gum out. I found that hard to believe and so did Annie because, while Felice was in the pantry trying to decide between Jiffy and Peter Pan, Annie grabed the scissors and snip!
Oh Felice was furious!(good thing Jaysa wasn't here) I calmed her down(Janet's not home yet, so I needed the practice)and asked her to show me how it's done using the big chunk of hair and gum that Annie had left. Well that made her happy that she could now demonstrate this miracle and well, I don't know, it didn't seem to work that well.(maybe it still needs to be attached to the scalp)
So, anyway, Annie went out back to play, I continued cooking and Felice decided to have a peanut butter sandwich while she waited for dinner. Well, she ment to have one. The 5 inch long hair that she pulled from her mouth after her first bite, changed her mind.