Room For Improvement

Wow! My first post!

Its been so long since i've blogged about anything, I'm way over due!

Just to catch everyone up, I'm no longer at Salvation Army, instead I am working at a child care center in Toledo. It was hard leaving the Army, but I trusted that God had a different plan for me, and indeed he does.

I was amazed at how everything came together for this job. The Salvation Army had to cut my position June 5th, Wyatt's grandmother didn't want to babysit after he turned one which is June 9th, so I was scrambling for a job that would help me out with a babysitter as well as pay the bills. I thought my only option was an evening position, that way I could work once Pete got home in the evening.

The saddest part about leaving the Army was the children, and finding an evening position meant that I would no longer be able to teach children about Christ. Knowing that God couldn't have wanted that, I began to pray for God to guide me to where He wanted me to be. After a month of no one calling me back on various job positions, it took my husband to restore my faith and remind me that I had asked for God's guidance and now I needed to be patient. He reminded me that I will know when the right job comes along, and until then I needed to enjoy being a wife and a mother. So, I did just that and I loved it!

While at the zoo with Pete and Wyatt I received a call from the owner of a child care center, he was responding to my resume' for the administrator position. We immediately left the zoo for the interview. He needed a christian administrator to run the place, he is more interested in using the day care as a ministry than he is for a profit. After speaking with me, he felt confident that I was the right person for the job and I was to begin a week later.

So, that brings me here, i've been working there for about a month. My hours are 6AM-2PM and Wyatt comes to work with me! I must admit, when I first walked into the child care center, I thought for sure that it was a mistake. It was dark, dirty, unkept. The floors had not been swept, there was food from many snacks and lunches stuck to the floor. The nursery was used as storage with boxes and bags thrown in the cribs that had soiled sheets covering the matresses below. This place REALLY needed help!

My first month has been very overwhelming! First thing that was done was the nursery as Wyatt would need a place to rest while I was there. Next came washing and mopping and sweeping and dusting! There was nothing on the walls, those are now decorated too!

I've had my mom and Pete both come in and take a look around, they gave me kudos for a job well done on the cleanliness, the only thing they said is that it still seems a bit cluttered. There are MANY toys there. I think in trying to make it a better day care, they kept buying toys, not realizing that lack of toys was not the problem.

So, this week i'm gonna start storing some toys away, I dont want to get rid of them b/c they were purchased for us. I'm putting them in a storage room and as needed I can change out toys or replace broken ones.

The only other thing I want to do is create that amazing change that will increase our enrollment. I really want more children there, and I know that I can make it happen, I just need to keep making improvements until satisfaction is reached. Maybe I cannot make that amazing change, maybe thats something that only HE can do....hmmm....thats really making me think.

As this first post comes to a close, please keep the children at my center, the day care center and myself in prayer as we are in need of making this what God wants it to be.

Grace and Peace