Thanks From Tiffney

       I will admit right off the bat that I was going to do an entery on Thanksgiving but I can't help it but it is a different kind of thanks espically after what I heard today. Yes, my title is from the idea from the book "Kisses From Kate" but I need something better that starts with a "T". I would usually be upset because I didn't get to spend time with family the morning of Thanksgiving this year but I'm not. I got to make some Turkey cookie treats and think about what I am most thankful for and that got me ready for my day.
         I have a 2nd family and that 2nd family are my children at work and there was no place I would rather be today then there. How many people can say that about their job? I was thinking here are all these statuses that talks about family and I don't get to spend it with mine but I did in a way. My 2nd family. The family I spend 40 hours a week with. When you work just for the extra pay for the holiday or when you think there are a million more things you could be doing then helping children, don't show it around people who don't have it. I know I'm difference from anyone around me and that makes me strange in a way but think about the children around you now. They don't have any of that stuff to go home to and might not ever have it again.
           I read an article by Katie Davis (Kisses From Kate) this morning and it got me thinking about something too and I need to read her book again since I'm doing kind of what she is but easier. I am taking care of 12 children, not by myself though. It got me thinking could I really do what she does here in America. It would be a little easier. She calls herself a single mom with 13 children and she moved into their country. That is how I started thinking about my children as family right now. I'm doing everything for them so why not, right?
           There was a moment tonight where I just had to say "thank you God" and that was when we were all sitting in the dining room on our side of the building instead of the cafe and eating like a family. I just looked at every child and thought about Katie and then thought I could do this. I want to do this. We had a sub sandwich that supposed to resemble the sandwiches you have after the big meal because they had the big meal at lunch. It was a family setting more then I have seen in my career. A bunch of little ones eating around you. Wouldn't you know it if you know me, I was right there sitting beside them in a small chair at their table. That is when I really noticed that I was truely thankful. It's moments like these I see and wish everyone in the world could see instead of me explaining it because it is never the same in words. There were 3 adult workers and 12 children. It was like our own little house for the night. :) Paper plates, milk cartons, no sliverware, and everything else you could think of after a big meal.
               Do these children really understand? Not one of them said a thing about Thanksgiving and that made me sad now that I think about it but I still think they are still too young to know about it espically if they have never been taught what it is all about or what it is. One more thing they don't get to go shopping on Black Friday or get things from that shopping day so stop and think for just a second about other people while you are shopping. That's all on that because I could go into more on how I feel about that day starting on Thanksgiving.