God's Gift of a Day

     It always seems like the little gifts that are unnoticed during a plain day is noticed during a really busy day or at least to me that is how it seems. I had a busy day at work yesterday but it was God's present to me because I haven't had a day like that in a long time. One little sweet thing happened one after the other and I got to know the children more and love on them more it felt like. I had 3 amazing things happen to me yesterday and it just made my day. Some of the things were just trying to make a different in the child's life too and I got joy from that as well.
     One was from a little girl when I was putting her pjs on her before bed. She hugged and kissed me. She also said, "I love you, Miss Tiffney" a muiltple of times and she also said, in those middle of I love yous, "You're adorable." Just broke my heart to hear that from a little girl. It was complient after complient from her while getting her pjs on. Then I was rocking another little girl to bed and she was very talkative before bed. She told me all of about her mommy, daddy, and pink fish. She was talking really fast and like she wanted to get it out of her mind. For this little girl, it was the first time that she talked non-stop to me before bed because usually she wouldn't. She would just be quite but not last night so I'm hoping and praying I'm getting somewhere with her.
        Another sweet moment but sad moment I had with a little boy. He was in time out because he didn't stop what he was doing and he was told a lot of times to stop it and he was warned. He sat by himself for a little awhile quitely but then he started to say, "I won't be a bad boy anymore" and hearing that just broke my heart so I had to go over and explain to him why he was sitting there alone. I told him, "You are not a bad boy and we don't think that here. Your actions and what you do are bad. You made bad choices. We don't do this and that but we do do this and that. You aren't a bad boy." He was trying to hug me to get out of time out before the talk but I made him sit while I talked to him.
         Another moment was when I found out something about one of my little boys that I didn't know. I feel like God gave me that moment to do something about it. I've been wanting to do another ministry on my own and now I know where to start because of this little boy but I just have to go see if I can start it there. It was like God saying, "Here is one of your answers" but yet it was so sad to hear the little boy say it like he did.
        All of this during and after an outing with the children. Yes, it was really a busy day for us. I hope my next 4 days before Christmas there is like yesterday was. I hope God keep giving me presents every day. I just need to be on the outlook for them. :)