Daycare

Miss Nona from the Daycare (connected with the school that I substitute teach for) just called and asked if I could work three hours a day during the week doing lunch duty at the daycare. I told her, "Yes! Yes!" I had worked there before, with great pleasure, for several summers as a teacher or an aide and have filled in at each level....cannot say I have a favorite room, though the infant room is so much fun...getting to hold, rock, and feed those little sweeties! Changing diapers and wiping up spit-up is okay, too. Just part of it. It was awesome last year to be at the Primary School and have many of the little kids, walking decoriously in line with their teacher, suddenly break away to run up and hug my leg, just to say, "Hello! I am glad to see you!" A few even call me "Granny", though I don't really know where they got that. They like me as well as I like them. A child knows when someone really cares about them. You cannot fool a child. I love children..they are the hope of the world. I will be at the daycare for a few hours each day, until school starts and I go back to being a substitute teacher all day at the school. I work at all campuses and all grades....I will go wherever I am needed. I especially enjoy the Special Kids, though that class is more demanding and sometimes a bit emotionally draining, as they have so many challenges to face every day.  With the outrageous cost of gasoline today, it is good that I live only 3 miles away from the daycare. This will let me help them out, I will enjoy being with the children, plus make a little money and still be handy to be back home soon to check on the old mare, Jet, who is to foal any day now.  So....this works out good for all of us!