A Winter Day with the Children

         I enjoyed a winter day, yesterday, with my children. It has been awhile since I wrote about my job and the children so I thought it was time for an entry about them. It was so much fun! I haven't had a day that I enjoyed as much as I didn't yesterday. It just seemed easygoing and peaceful even with the children talking loudly and rudely at some points in the day. It felt like I was comfortable there and knew what I was doing. It was like I wasn't trying to do or go anywhere else but there with the kiddos. I wonder if the coloring I did yesterday morning helped me out because my mind was clear of the stresses of life because I did that.
           I also finished Christmas shopping and saw some deer on the road and no morning nap for me so I had a pretty good morning too. Just to put this in here, we had snow and ice the weekend before. More ice then snow though so, for me, it was also a pretty relaxing weekend because I didn't want to get out in that messy weather.
         I don't know what helped or if all of them together did but we got a lot done yesterday and had fun doing it. First, we got to go outside and play for about 10 mins. The kids ran straight to the snow/ice mixture and played in it for a little bit. There was a big patch of it left in the shade. They all tried to make snowballs and snow angels out of it but it wasn't the right stuff. The girls played in it for most of their outside time but the boys found something else to play on. There was some ice on one of the short slides so they decided to go down it and they kept going down it until it was time to go inside. The idea of throwing snowballs gave me an idea for later on in the day.
          After going back inside, we went to the art room and did some art alone, just my group, and that was fun. We finished painting our Christmas ornaments finally. They took us about three days to keep them done. Then we made a little candle out of a paper plate. The kids got to paint a lot so they loved it and it did keep them busy the whole time. The candles was more for the holiday of Dwali but they didn't need to know that. The only bad thing about yesterday was they were quite talkative so I didn't try to explain anything to them.
           When we got done with our crafts, we went to the gym because they still needed to get rid of some energy since we didn't spend our usual half a hour to hour outside because it was cold. I let them chase each other around the gym with paper snowballs. I know there was a certain game to play with snowballs but they just had fun chasing each other with them. There were only a few children left because it was at the end of the day so I just let them run it out and play chase. We also turned out the lights in the gym and pretended that we were throwing snowballs at night. The children had a lot of fun with that. They didn't want me to turn the lights back on at all.
            I even got in on the fun and they threw snowballs at me and then I would throw them back and even chase them. I do have to say they started it first. They were the ones that threw the first snowball at me. :) It was fun running around with them and it just took things off my mind for a bit. Then I stopped playing because it wasn't a fair game if I continued it. By the end of the game, it was against 3 girls and one boy so that is when I called it quits and we went back into the cafe to play. So Yeah, in a strange way, it was a fun Monday for me yesterday and I was glad about it but I also really sleepy when I got home. As soon as my head hit my pillow, I was gone. They worn me out yesterday.