Today was an amazing day for me. I got to help out an organzation that I have loved and helped out with since I was a little child. That organzation is: Compassion International. They have a speical place in my heart and always will. I started sponsoring a child through them about 10 years ago. I can tell you my story about how I got hooked up with them and how my experience has been with them for so many years.
I was 18 years old when I sponsored my first child from them. My girl was and still is the same girl and my only girl so far. I started to help her out when I went to a youth conference in high school with my youth group. Compassion was there and I felt the need to help a little child out because I have always been a person to help children out that are in proverty. I started out donating money to her and her family and then I had to stop for awhile but my mom kept paying Compassion for her but then I started up again in my later years in college. It is amazing to see her growing up so fast from this 5 year old little girl to this 15 year old lady. Seeing how her handwriting has progressed and just her letters and writings and drawings in general is so neat. I need to write her a lot more then I do.
My little girl is from the Philppians. Why I picked the Philppians at age 18 I do not know. I had no desire to go there. It was porbably because she was cute and I didn't know or had any country that I truely loved back then because I didn't travel at all in high school and I probably thought I never would get the chance so why pick a close one. Now since I have been to other countries and places I regret not picking one closer but I will stick with her until she is done with school and there's no doubt about it that I will get another child but this time it will be closer like in Guatemala so I can travel and visit that child.
I got to vounlteer for the first time too with Compassion today. They were at a church in my town sharing a "program" called "Change the Story-The Compassion Experience". It was so neat to do and be a part of. It just made me want to sponsor another child form Guatemala and go help them out in other country mainly with their child development programs like teach in the centers. What was it like you may ask? It was a trailer filled with 3 sponsor children's stories about how their lives were changed because of their sponsors. People got to listen to the stories on an ipod and walking through every room and every part of their stories. The childrens' lives before Compassion, during Compassion, and after Compassion.
The 3 stories that I got to listen to today were from Boliva, India, and Urandga. There were 2 girls and one boy. They are touched me in different ways. I remember one of the girls' stories was about her mother and human trafficing because that was the only way they could make a living. After I walked through all of the stories, I got to help set up ipods for other people that came to listen and see the stories too. It was a joyous time for me. I was happy all the time and not worrying about a thing. I also remember one of the other girls' story was about how her father had left the family and how she wanted a real loving father in her life and that is what lead her to God. He was the Loving Father to her, not her Indian gods. It is so strange to think about how children think that way sometimes even here in the states.
It just made my heart going more and more for different nations but espically Guatemala where I love and to sponsor more children but I can't right now. That place is so dear to my heart no matter where I go in life. I want to do so much more with Compassion like go visit my "little" girl in the Philippians and help them with more events if possible around the area in which I live. I've never seen anyone do anything like this experience before. It is a great and neat idea. Very different but wonderful. God bless the children that get sponsored with weekend and if you are in NWA area please ask questions and go. It will change your life for sure.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Commitment is a Lifetime Lesson
I thought that since it is Valentine's Day tommrow that I would write something along that line that can help everyone out or get everyone thinking at least. "Commitment is a Lifetime Lesson" or "Commitment is hard in any level of life." I've been thinking about that word "commitment" lately and what it really means but it hit me hard yesterday when I didn't get up and go to my Bible study at church. I started to wonder how many little things like that do I just drop because I'm too sleepy or don't have the time to do. Then I got to thinking what are some things I am committed too right now in this part of my life.
I have two things that haven't changed since I moved here and won't change for a long time. The first one is my job and the kiddos I help. It seems like I've became so committed to them that I'm becoming the leader for them which is good but strange for a shy girl like me. I will say that the reason I missed yesterday's study was because I was sleepy from working. The children take a lot of my strength right now because I'm the main one there. We also have a challenging child so I'm trying to firgure him out and I love it but it is hard at the same time. People are really seeing me taking command and stepping up to the job. I've been told twice this week that I'm doing something along those lines. It feels great but then again I feel bad for the other people because it is just me doing what I love and was made to do. It really is my passion.
The other thing is encouraging and be there for friends and praying for them. I keep up with what they are doing and drop a little comment on Facebook every once in awhile. I pray for them when they have things going on like they do now big things espically. I been encouraging them since the start of their dream. I can do 2 big things at once but the small things seems to slip to the side espically when people don't understand me at all. I've also gave up a lot of things just to focus on my job.
What gets me is commitment can change, for me now, day to day and month to month, which I think sounds bad but that is my life now. I'm at the exploring and having fun stage I guess even though some things I want to have a part of for good it's just not time yet for it to happen. With my job though, it is understandable for things to change and you have to be flexible because you know never know what kind of children you will get or who will be there the next time. I know the importance of commitment and trust me I would love to have it and not worry about a thing but life doesn't let us have that. Through all of life, you have to me committed to something whether job, spouse, friends, or yourself, you are committed to something all the time.
I think that God teaches us a lot about commitment when we are committed to Him. He tells and shows us what it is like to be committed to something or someone when He Loves us the way He does. He is committed to making our lives the best that He knows how better then we do. He is committed to making sure we are happy. He is committed to making our dreams and desires come true. He is committed to giving us what we need whether strength, wisdom, and such day by day. He is committed to being by our side all the time so we don't have to go far at all. He is committed to us by making sure we have such a beautiful world to live in.
I have a challenge for you all: The challenge is and I will be thinking more about this too in the next few days: What are some other examples of how we can be committed in our life by God showing how He is committed to us? What are you going to be committed to for Him? Mine is the children and people that I'm serving.
I have two things that haven't changed since I moved here and won't change for a long time. The first one is my job and the kiddos I help. It seems like I've became so committed to them that I'm becoming the leader for them which is good but strange for a shy girl like me. I will say that the reason I missed yesterday's study was because I was sleepy from working. The children take a lot of my strength right now because I'm the main one there. We also have a challenging child so I'm trying to firgure him out and I love it but it is hard at the same time. People are really seeing me taking command and stepping up to the job. I've been told twice this week that I'm doing something along those lines. It feels great but then again I feel bad for the other people because it is just me doing what I love and was made to do. It really is my passion.
The other thing is encouraging and be there for friends and praying for them. I keep up with what they are doing and drop a little comment on Facebook every once in awhile. I pray for them when they have things going on like they do now big things espically. I been encouraging them since the start of their dream. I can do 2 big things at once but the small things seems to slip to the side espically when people don't understand me at all. I've also gave up a lot of things just to focus on my job.
What gets me is commitment can change, for me now, day to day and month to month, which I think sounds bad but that is my life now. I'm at the exploring and having fun stage I guess even though some things I want to have a part of for good it's just not time yet for it to happen. With my job though, it is understandable for things to change and you have to be flexible because you know never know what kind of children you will get or who will be there the next time. I know the importance of commitment and trust me I would love to have it and not worry about a thing but life doesn't let us have that. Through all of life, you have to me committed to something whether job, spouse, friends, or yourself, you are committed to something all the time.
I think that God teaches us a lot about commitment when we are committed to Him. He tells and shows us what it is like to be committed to something or someone when He Loves us the way He does. He is committed to making our lives the best that He knows how better then we do. He is committed to making sure we are happy. He is committed to making our dreams and desires come true. He is committed to giving us what we need whether strength, wisdom, and such day by day. He is committed to being by our side all the time so we don't have to go far at all. He is committed to us by making sure we have such a beautiful world to live in.
I have a challenge for you all: The challenge is and I will be thinking more about this too in the next few days: What are some other examples of how we can be committed in our life by God showing how He is committed to us? What are you going to be committed to for Him? Mine is the children and people that I'm serving.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
To my Grandma and Grandad
Dear Grandma and Grandad,
I wish I could tell you this in person instead of writing a letter that will never be given to you. It has been 2 years and 1 year since I've seen you both. I couldn't help but think about both of you today on your annverisery. I was looking at the bullet that was shot during Grandad's burial and started to think and cry. My job has been really hard lately but I know you both would be proud of where I am today. I got to thinking about where Grandad used to work and in a way I'm kind of doing the same thing only for innocent children. I'm in a shelter that opens 24 hours and had it challenges every now and then. You are learning everyday. It can be scary at times too because you are wondering if you are doing the right thing or enough for that person. You never know what a person might do. It is the biggest shelter around NWA and it is well known. That's you in me, Grandad. Now for Grandma, I feel like I am in a big house cleaning and watching, right now, 6 children and trying to do what is best for them. I feel like a stay at home mom in my work. Loving on the children and playing with them every chance I get. Trying to understand their needs and meeting them even through the hard times. I know you both would be proud of where I am today living out what I learned and saw in both of you. It is that if you have a passion for something then go towards that passion by working hard and keep your mind on it. Something I remember Grandad telling me, "You might be working in a goat farm at first, but if you work hard enough you will reach bigger and better things." He told me that while I was searching for a job in AR and even though my first job didn't work out. I love my 2nd job and might be there awhile. It is funny how my 2nd job is a lot like his and grandma's combined. I have so much respect for you both now that I fully understand what it was that you both did. I wish it didn't take me til now after you both were gone to firugre that out. I never giving up and my dream will just keep getting bigger and help more children and people because of you both.
Love Your Granddaughter,
Tiffney
P.S. Grandad, I miss hearing "Come back and see me" (wish I actually took you up on that offer more often then I did) and "you are going up so fast and getting so tall".
Don't let what you want to say to people you love slip by because you never know what will happen after they are gone.
I wish I could tell you this in person instead of writing a letter that will never be given to you. It has been 2 years and 1 year since I've seen you both. I couldn't help but think about both of you today on your annverisery. I was looking at the bullet that was shot during Grandad's burial and started to think and cry. My job has been really hard lately but I know you both would be proud of where I am today. I got to thinking about where Grandad used to work and in a way I'm kind of doing the same thing only for innocent children. I'm in a shelter that opens 24 hours and had it challenges every now and then. You are learning everyday. It can be scary at times too because you are wondering if you are doing the right thing or enough for that person. You never know what a person might do. It is the biggest shelter around NWA and it is well known. That's you in me, Grandad. Now for Grandma, I feel like I am in a big house cleaning and watching, right now, 6 children and trying to do what is best for them. I feel like a stay at home mom in my work. Loving on the children and playing with them every chance I get. Trying to understand their needs and meeting them even through the hard times. I know you both would be proud of where I am today living out what I learned and saw in both of you. It is that if you have a passion for something then go towards that passion by working hard and keep your mind on it. Something I remember Grandad telling me, "You might be working in a goat farm at first, but if you work hard enough you will reach bigger and better things." He told me that while I was searching for a job in AR and even though my first job didn't work out. I love my 2nd job and might be there awhile. It is funny how my 2nd job is a lot like his and grandma's combined. I have so much respect for you both now that I fully understand what it was that you both did. I wish it didn't take me til now after you both were gone to firugre that out. I never giving up and my dream will just keep getting bigger and help more children and people because of you both.
Love Your Granddaughter,
Tiffney
P.S. Grandad, I miss hearing "Come back and see me" (wish I actually took you up on that offer more often then I did) and "you are going up so fast and getting so tall".
Don't let what you want to say to people you love slip by because you never know what will happen after they are gone.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Psalm 16:1-9
Psalm 16:1-9
"Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. I said to the Lord, “You are my Master! Every good thing I have comes from you.” The godly people in the land are my true heroes!
I take pleasure in them! Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods. I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood
or even speak the names of their gods. Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! I will bless the Lord who guides me even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety."
or even speak the names of their gods. Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! I will bless the Lord who guides me even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety."
These verses has really spoken to me in the past week. They go along with what I have been learning and that is that Christ is King and He is in control and He will bless me through everything. They remind me that God will watch over me and the people and things I love dearly so I don't have to worry. When we go after the earthly things, we get so confused and messed up but when we focus on God and His Plan for us then there are not troubles that He cannot help us fix. He has given me the chance (land) to change lives in the here and now and I'm learning so many things from the experience. God tells me what way to go if I would only listen even at night my heart is still working to keep me alive because He has more things He wants me to do. The Lord is always with me even when I feel alone. He is right beside me and I should not doubt that a bit. I know I do because I'm human but how can I after everything I see throughout the day. I'm happy where I am right now and I rejoice. I get to rejoice everyday with a child when he or she learns something new. I feel at peace with this job that I am in because I know I'm in the safety of other people. They care about the children like I do and wants what is best for them.
Challenge: What are some of the good things (blessings) that God has given you lately? Are you following the Plan God has for you? Are you finding rest and safety in God?
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Christ is King!
Some of you might be reading the title and saying "Duh, of course He is King!" but that saying hit me hard last night at church while the sermon was going on. The preacher would just keep saying it and I would keep hearing it but that would be the only thing I hear that kept touching me in a different way. I have been going through a lot of ideas and options for my life and just thinking a lot. I would hear one thing there that I wanted to do and then another thing from over there. I have been going through what I call little storms lately too.
I was home last weekend and went to my parents' church and the preacher talked about storms of life that we go through and how we need to step out on faith. Strangely enough, I come back to AR and go to church and the sermon is the same but they add an important truth that during all this Christ is King and He is in control. The two sermons went together but they were from two different churches. Amazing how God works, huh? It is strange too because all of these things I'm going through seem like small things. I mean I have been in worse storms then this where I could of used the stories of the Peter walking on water or the man laying on the mat because he couldn't walk and people helping them get to Jesus but God chose to show me those stories now.
Work is stressful some days even been more with this snow but I love it. I have these ideas and made up options that could happen at work but is not happening right now. I have these options with friends that I would love to help with but can't because it is something I would have to commit my life to. I got all these little storms or ideas in my head yet nothing is happening but I feel like I can't do any of these things on my own like God would have to make a way, show me a way, to go about it.
The phase "Christ is King" is a great reminder that Christ is in charge of and in control of everything in our lives and He knows what is best for us. I love what my preacher said last night. He gave us three words or actions, is a better way to look at them, to do and they were: BELIEVE, TRUST, AND CONFIDENCE. A lot of times we, as Christians, do believe and have the trust that we should in God but do we have the confidence to go do what God is telling us to do. Do we have that confidence to step out in faith and let Him have control? I know I will be praying a lot more for the confidence that I need to do whatever God wants me to do in my life.
It is so neat to have people in my life where I see what God has done for them and is doing for them. I either want to be a part of that or I want it to happen in my life but I know they didn't just get there by luck. They were blessed and lead my God. They put their trust in Him and gave it all they got and God did the rest. The part that they could not do.
I look at it as a 3 step process: I have believed and seen what God can do.
I'm working on the trusting Him part right now and I feel like where I need to be for the next step in my life on the trusting.
Now it's time to do the hardest one for me and that is to have CONFIDENCE and go get what I know God wants me to have and do. CONFIDENCE in know that CHRIST is MY KING and that He is in CONTROL of my LIFE.
Do you have the belief, trust, and confidence to do what God has called you to do? I know I don't but I am working on it everyday and growing closer to Christ because of it.
I was home last weekend and went to my parents' church and the preacher talked about storms of life that we go through and how we need to step out on faith. Strangely enough, I come back to AR and go to church and the sermon is the same but they add an important truth that during all this Christ is King and He is in control. The two sermons went together but they were from two different churches. Amazing how God works, huh? It is strange too because all of these things I'm going through seem like small things. I mean I have been in worse storms then this where I could of used the stories of the Peter walking on water or the man laying on the mat because he couldn't walk and people helping them get to Jesus but God chose to show me those stories now.
Work is stressful some days even been more with this snow but I love it. I have these ideas and made up options that could happen at work but is not happening right now. I have these options with friends that I would love to help with but can't because it is something I would have to commit my life to. I got all these little storms or ideas in my head yet nothing is happening but I feel like I can't do any of these things on my own like God would have to make a way, show me a way, to go about it.
The phase "Christ is King" is a great reminder that Christ is in charge of and in control of everything in our lives and He knows what is best for us. I love what my preacher said last night. He gave us three words or actions, is a better way to look at them, to do and they were: BELIEVE, TRUST, AND CONFIDENCE. A lot of times we, as Christians, do believe and have the trust that we should in God but do we have the confidence to go do what God is telling us to do. Do we have that confidence to step out in faith and let Him have control? I know I will be praying a lot more for the confidence that I need to do whatever God wants me to do in my life.
It is so neat to have people in my life where I see what God has done for them and is doing for them. I either want to be a part of that or I want it to happen in my life but I know they didn't just get there by luck. They were blessed and lead my God. They put their trust in Him and gave it all they got and God did the rest. The part that they could not do.
I look at it as a 3 step process: I have believed and seen what God can do.
I'm working on the trusting Him part right now and I feel like where I need to be for the next step in my life on the trusting.
Now it's time to do the hardest one for me and that is to have CONFIDENCE and go get what I know God wants me to have and do. CONFIDENCE in know that CHRIST is MY KING and that He is in CONTROL of my LIFE.
Do you have the belief, trust, and confidence to do what God has called you to do? I know I don't but I am working on it everyday and growing closer to Christ because of it.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
What Is The Only Thing That You Want?
It has been a week since I last wrote on here. I'm so sorry but as most of you know it has been a crazy week or more with this snowy weather. I stayed two nights/days at work this week so I feel like I'm behind on everything now. It was a good two full days at work though and it was fun staying over night because it felt like a small mission trip and I got to know the children better for 2 full days of working. I was almost thinking about staying for 3 nights and I would have if I had packed enough. I learned a lot and we got 2 new children at the end of this week when it was safe to drive. I will tell you about one of them later. Right now, I want to tell you about something that one of my older children said to me one night this week and I will be honest I cried right beside his bed when he said this.
He is the strong boy where is something would be bothering him you would never know until bedtime because he would hold it in and he did during this week. One day this week he had a visit with his parents and that night he just started crying when he laid down in bed. I comforted him and talked to him about it and if you know me you know my heart and it just broke it to pieces. He was talking about his mom and dad.
He said things about his mom that I guess every mom would want to hear. I know if I was a mom I would want to hear those things from my children and I guess that why I cried a lot because my dream is to be a stay at home mom someday. He was saying things like "my mommy teaches me what is right and what is wrong", "she loves me", "she cooks for me", and "I miss my mommy and daddy". I couldn't help thinking right there that when he says "she teaches me right from wrong", only if you really knew what she was doing and knew that it was wrong you would be so much better off but I know those children don't understand those things.
He said something else that really got me thinking about my life and what I really wanted to do with it and it didn't help when he said it with these other things. He said, "THE ONLY THING I WANT IS TO SEE MY FAMILY ALL TOGETHER AGAIN." If that doesn't brake your heart then. I'm sorry, you are a cold person. I got to thinking about that in my life and things started to come to mind. I thought, "well, I have a family that cares for me and friends that do the same." I also thought that "I should only want God and I do but in earthly terms what is the only thing I really want?" I can't tell you all of it because I don't want to talk about anyone on here but I will say that I really want to be a stay at home mom and make things like crafts and sew. I really want what is best for a friend of mine. I haven't cried that hard in a long time and it could be a mixture of not enough sleep and feeling sorry for this child.
As Christians or even just people we take a lot of things for granted sometimes. I know I do. My family lives close enough now where I could go visit them every weekend if wanted and had the money. I have friends I need to go see and talk to. We think, sometimes, family is not enough in this world but to a lot of people that is all they have and when they lose that they lost everything. I would never have 6 children of my own but I'm glad I have 5 other brothers and sisters to talk to and then a lot of nephews and ninces to play with or talk to too.
My challenge for you from this entery is: WHAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WANT? Think on that question for some time and then go get it if you can and never give up. It would be neat if you would even share it in a comment on this entery. Get some interaction going on my blog so I can see how many people actually read it.
He is the strong boy where is something would be bothering him you would never know until bedtime because he would hold it in and he did during this week. One day this week he had a visit with his parents and that night he just started crying when he laid down in bed. I comforted him and talked to him about it and if you know me you know my heart and it just broke it to pieces. He was talking about his mom and dad.
He said things about his mom that I guess every mom would want to hear. I know if I was a mom I would want to hear those things from my children and I guess that why I cried a lot because my dream is to be a stay at home mom someday. He was saying things like "my mommy teaches me what is right and what is wrong", "she loves me", "she cooks for me", and "I miss my mommy and daddy". I couldn't help thinking right there that when he says "she teaches me right from wrong", only if you really knew what she was doing and knew that it was wrong you would be so much better off but I know those children don't understand those things.
He said something else that really got me thinking about my life and what I really wanted to do with it and it didn't help when he said it with these other things. He said, "THE ONLY THING I WANT IS TO SEE MY FAMILY ALL TOGETHER AGAIN." If that doesn't brake your heart then. I'm sorry, you are a cold person. I got to thinking about that in my life and things started to come to mind. I thought, "well, I have a family that cares for me and friends that do the same." I also thought that "I should only want God and I do but in earthly terms what is the only thing I really want?" I can't tell you all of it because I don't want to talk about anyone on here but I will say that I really want to be a stay at home mom and make things like crafts and sew. I really want what is best for a friend of mine. I haven't cried that hard in a long time and it could be a mixture of not enough sleep and feeling sorry for this child.
As Christians or even just people we take a lot of things for granted sometimes. I know I do. My family lives close enough now where I could go visit them every weekend if wanted and had the money. I have friends I need to go see and talk to. We think, sometimes, family is not enough in this world but to a lot of people that is all they have and when they lose that they lost everything. I would never have 6 children of my own but I'm glad I have 5 other brothers and sisters to talk to and then a lot of nephews and ninces to play with or talk to too.
My challenge for you from this entery is: WHAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WANT? Think on that question for some time and then go get it if you can and never give up. It would be neat if you would even share it in a comment on this entery. Get some interaction going on my blog so I can see how many people actually read it.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Two Very Different Children
I need to come up with better titles for my enteries, I know. This one is hard to come up with though. all of my children that I work with are different and been in different situations. We never know what a child has been through until when get the child. I have two very different children that I have to learn a lot about and remember a lot about.
I had a little girl that was going to be my challenge for three months. She came in with a bump on her head and her left arm broken. I had to start giving her baths with a Wal-Mart bag on her arm. She got the cast off after a week of working with her. She would spit at friends and any workers that when she didn't like what we made her do or when another child had something she wanted. She was so anxious that she had a kitty that she would carry around everywhere with her. If she lost the kitty, she would ask, "where's kitty?" She couldn't stay or work with one thing for more then 3 mins. She did play with the chain links and chalk for a long time. She would talk and talk and talk even at bedtime and she would keep sitting up and laying down at bedtime. She would not lay still until she knew I was serious about it. She was my next challenge but she left before I felt like I did anything but I believe I did something in that short amount of time. She had the most pretty smile and laugh when she would do it but she didn't do that very often either, mostly when I just held her.
It was neat to take care of a child with a broke arm. It's not neat how she got it but it was a way I could relate to her and it brought back memories of my broken arm. I knew what to do for a bath because I had to have it done to me. I was always scared that water would get in her cast but it never did. It was hard to see her do things with the cast on but it was neat when she got it off. She would use it like nothing was ever wrong with it and it was neat to see that. She used it to play with toys, swings outside, and eat but she still had a hard time climbing and pulling up on things. She was scared to climb the treehouse or out of the ball pit.
I have a little boy that is very smart and happy. I really have to watch him though. He is the kind of child that is allgric to everything so bad that he needs meds for it. He also comes from a family of 6 with him being the 6th one. He has a positive outlook on life and is very polite. There is nothing much to tell about him but this. He is just different because really he can't eat anything because he is allgric to so many things. Even the smallest thing like "may have milk in it" might make him sick. It is so funny because when you get the whole family together at suppertime, they take up a whole table and need a worked to sit with them. Something else that is very strange about this family is that it is mixed with different children. I know that happens a lot but I guess with that big of a family you can really tell a difference and it is strange. I am scared that I will give him the wrong thing on accient because I'm busy or not thinking but know I can't mess up.
These 2 are my 1st different children and by that I mean by very 1st different children. I never had to take care of a child with a broken arm or that is allgric to so many different things. My job has been an experience for me in this past month but I still love it because I'm learning a lot of new things and becoming more outgoing. My workers are seeing the smartalike side of me and that is something that suprises everyone when that side comes out. Like I tell my co-worker, some days I have to be that smartalike because that is what gets me through the day and that is how I make people laugh because they don't expect it from me at first.
I had a little girl that was going to be my challenge for three months. She came in with a bump on her head and her left arm broken. I had to start giving her baths with a Wal-Mart bag on her arm. She got the cast off after a week of working with her. She would spit at friends and any workers that when she didn't like what we made her do or when another child had something she wanted. She was so anxious that she had a kitty that she would carry around everywhere with her. If she lost the kitty, she would ask, "where's kitty?" She couldn't stay or work with one thing for more then 3 mins. She did play with the chain links and chalk for a long time. She would talk and talk and talk even at bedtime and she would keep sitting up and laying down at bedtime. She would not lay still until she knew I was serious about it. She was my next challenge but she left before I felt like I did anything but I believe I did something in that short amount of time. She had the most pretty smile and laugh when she would do it but she didn't do that very often either, mostly when I just held her.
It was neat to take care of a child with a broke arm. It's not neat how she got it but it was a way I could relate to her and it brought back memories of my broken arm. I knew what to do for a bath because I had to have it done to me. I was always scared that water would get in her cast but it never did. It was hard to see her do things with the cast on but it was neat when she got it off. She would use it like nothing was ever wrong with it and it was neat to see that. She used it to play with toys, swings outside, and eat but she still had a hard time climbing and pulling up on things. She was scared to climb the treehouse or out of the ball pit.
I have a little boy that is very smart and happy. I really have to watch him though. He is the kind of child that is allgric to everything so bad that he needs meds for it. He also comes from a family of 6 with him being the 6th one. He has a positive outlook on life and is very polite. There is nothing much to tell about him but this. He is just different because really he can't eat anything because he is allgric to so many things. Even the smallest thing like "may have milk in it" might make him sick. It is so funny because when you get the whole family together at suppertime, they take up a whole table and need a worked to sit with them. Something else that is very strange about this family is that it is mixed with different children. I know that happens a lot but I guess with that big of a family you can really tell a difference and it is strange. I am scared that I will give him the wrong thing on accient because I'm busy or not thinking but know I can't mess up.
These 2 are my 1st different children and by that I mean by very 1st different children. I never had to take care of a child with a broken arm or that is allgric to so many different things. My job has been an experience for me in this past month but I still love it because I'm learning a lot of new things and becoming more outgoing. My workers are seeing the smartalike side of me and that is something that suprises everyone when that side comes out. Like I tell my co-worker, some days I have to be that smartalike because that is what gets me through the day and that is how I make people laugh because they don't expect it from me at first.
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