On a New Adventure

        I keep meaning to write another entry but things just keep happening. I finally found the time though to tell you about my new adventure and how it is making me see a lot more blessings in my life. It is strange that God would use two different spots to teach you about blessings and to make you see them in your life but that is what He has done to my this past week. I got a new job, therefore hence, the name of this entry because it is a new adventure for me again. It is a job at a preschool working with the infants this time instead of the preschoolers, which is a lot calmer in its own way. It is a calm that I like. :)
         I started this past Thursday and I'm already loving it and seeing the changing it will have on my life as time goes on. It is a little farther away in another city but that city is only 10 mins away so not really that far, just a different address. It is a big chained preschool, which means that it has a lot of the same preschools around AR and MO. The main one being in Springfield, MO and that is where 3, counting the main one, out of at least 6 of them are.
         Enough on the preschool itself, now let's get to the blessings and/or maybe differences of each job. I will start with the blessings first.
         Blessing One: It is nice to have some or all of parents' involvement in their child's life because you can follow their rules and ask them for some advice on their child. I do have to get back into the habit of talking to the parents and remembering everything I have to tell them or what they would like to hear. It has been 2 years since I had to do that.
         Blessing Two: My new job is such a cheery and friendly place. Everyone has a smile on their faces and there is no gossip about anyone. They are talkative to each other too. That is something I might have to get use to but it is a good thing that they want to communicate with each other and with the parents about their children.
         Blessing Three: It feels great to be back on a schedule that my body likes. I work 9-6 again and I love it. These past first two days my body has woke me up without my alarm clock going off 3 times. I don't have to leave my apartment until around 8:35-8:40.
         Blessing Four: I actually get a hour lunch break. It was strange the past two days because I didn't know what to do with myself but I went ahead and went out for lunch. I also got to do my Bible study Friday during that hour, which is good because now I know that I have time to do that and it will refresh me if it has been a hard day.
         Blessing Five: Some of the parents give us, teachers, gift for the holidays or just because they appreciate us. I already that a gift for Oct./Halloween from one of the parents. It just felt so good getting gifts again and feeling like you are making people happy.
         Blessing Six: The teacher that I work with, in the infants, will actually read books to the infants if they are all quite at one time. She did that on Thursday when they all had their bottles and were quite. The infants actually learn about things there. They have a monthly theme each month. This month is "Community Helpers".
         Blessing Seven: God has shown me that I am more about educating the children that I come in contact with instead of just watching them but I have to have a set way to teach them.
         Blessing Eight: God has, also, shown me that I need to take some time with the infants because I need less stress in my life and more calmness. Also, I need to learn how to take care of and teach them because that is an age I haven't done yet.
         Blessing Nine: I love seeing the infants smile and/or hear them "coo" and play with their feet when they are happy and I'm busy with other infants. I love making them smile too by playing with them. I, also, love cuddling them.
         Blessing Ten: This is a blessing that I need to work on with God's help, of course. I know I can do it with His Help and I don't have to act like I have to prove anything but I am the oldest and longest person that has worked in the childcare field at my new job in the infant room. I say it is a blessing because it can be to the people around me and myself but I need to know how to control and use it. I never been the oldest and longest person in the field before.
         As you can see, I love my new job and I hope and pray that the new feeling and awareness never wares off. I know I have a whole new outlook on the actual daycare/preschool field then I did before my last job. If I ever have doubts about how the job is going, I can always remember back to that "one" job that I had. If things doesn't seem right, I can always look back on how I should have fixed it and fix it in the present. I have just learned a lot of lessons from my last job about the childcare field and about who I am as a person.
         When you compare the two jobs, it is a miracle how different children can be because of their environment they grow up in. It would be neat if each college student in child development and/or education had to work at two totally different jobs with totally different children and then compare the two jobs. It would also be great for a psychology class and a sociology class in different ways. I would, for sure, do that. Kind of wish, I did do that. It would have helped me prepare for the future more and be for sure of what I wanted to do with my life.
         The main thing these two different jobs have taught me, so far, is: "Children have their own minds and you have to come down to the child's level. You can't expect them to all be on the same level."