Great Day at Work

Today I had an absolute great day at work! One of the girl's wasn't here today so I got to help on the infant side as well as my side with the toddlers. For anyone who doesn't know, I work at a daycare center in an elementary school. On my side (toddler side) I have 10 kids. One more boy will be back in a few weeks totalling 11. On the Infant side there is 5, with the little sister of the boy that will be back at the same time, totalling 6! There is me and 4 other people in the classroom.

So today like I said one girl was out and I had to help on the infant side. It was amazing!!! Most people would feel really sketchy watching over that many infants, but not for me! I had a blast! 

It was nap time and everyone was asleep but the youngest. He is 5 months old, and he is pure cuteness. He usually has a hard time during nap time. Let's set something clear right now. I have some experience with infants, but not a lot! I do not consider myself an expert. So I had to put little guy asleep. It took about 20 minutes of bouncing him up and down on my leg while I'm switching out my arms. That little guy is a big boy haha. I finally got him asleep and into the rocker. Usually when people try to put him in the rocker he wakes back up, but he didn't for me! I was so beyond happy and proud of myself! I had put my first infant to sleep! 

Well he stayed asleep for only about 20 minutes because all the other infants started to wake up one after another. So I'm watching 4 infants, 3 which can walk and one who can't just yet. They want to put everything in their mouths naturally. Also they try to climb on everything. Well when little guy woke up, that's when it got a little tricky. Watching 4 infants and trying to keep a 5 month on quiet while on my hip. I mastered it! It almost seemed easier by the minute! I feel so proud of myself. 

It really was a great day! I feel like I'm gaining so much experience day by day!

When my kiddos (toddlers) got up, one of my kids started playing with Play-doh. He likes when I help him make little balls. We practiced today on saying "please" and "thank you". He is getting so good at it! It's definitely a working progress. It's so awesome seeing them try so hard to get the words right. Each child is a little different and through time you learn how they learn to be able to teach them better. It's all a learning progress. 

These kiddos make me so happy and bring me such PURE joy! I get to teach them things every day and they teach me things too! I can make a difference in their young lives. This is the point in their age where they learn most things and to be able to be apart of that, fills me with such joy! I actually wake up and feel anxious to get to work! In all honestly, I don't feel like I am working! I get to do what I love every single day. That's all I could ever ask for in a job. 

I just had a great day and thought I would share to you a little bit about it! 

I'm on the lookout for blogs or blog posts regarding childcare, activities, teaching strategies, and things of that nature. If anyone knows any, please comment and let me know! I would absolutely appreciate that!!  

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What's on my book list? #1

Okie guys, I'm going to start a new segment on my blog! I wanted to start this a week ago but I had zero time. Now that I have time, I'm so excited to start this segment. 

So when I first moved here I found out they had a public library, and a pretty big one at that. So Jesse and I went and got a card. I was so thrilled to finally have a library card. Now I love reading, but I'm the laziest person at picking out books. I'm the type to pick a book based on what the spine looks like. I mean it is the only thing I see. I'm not about to take every book out of the shelf and read about it. That would take entirely too long and no one has time for that. When I got my card and was let loose in what seemed like one hundred aisles of books, I started going up and down the aisles. Yet I wasn't finding anything. I wanted to find interesting things, but I didn't want to pull out every book in the meantime. That's when I got an idea for this segment. I thought that I couldn't be the only person who has this problem. Really wants to read but doesn't know what to read. 

This segment will include books that I have checked out at the library. I will post them up here and give a paragraph about the book and a thumbs up or down on what I thought about it. This will be nice because it will give others ideas on what to check out; whether its the exact book, by the author or just the idea of another kind of book. I doubt I will completely read every single book that I check out but I will give my best on what I think about it. I may just post it for others to see who may find it interesting themselves. With all this said, let see this weeks books!! 

Since I had to wait so long to do this I forgot to take photos and I had to turn them in, I'm using internet photos. 

Southern Living Slow-cooker Quick Fixes

This book is two thumbs up. I mean who doesn't love just dumping stuff in a slow-cooker and watching the Wheel of Fortune? I do. I'm sure you do too, which is why you need this book in your life. I plan on purchasing this book; excited to expand my cookbook collection. This book all different kinds of quick fixes from meaty suppers, meatless mains, soups and stews to slow- cooker savvy meals. Something for everyone. 

Quesadillas

If you love quesadillas, go out and buy this book right now. Seriously. This book has the simplest, most delicious looking recipes for quesadillas. Recipes I didn't even know that could be in a quesadilla. Chicken Caesar Salad Quesadilla anyone? Carne Asada? Caramel Apple? Those sound absolutely amazing to me! 

Private Collection

If you are secretly still a teenage girl like I am and love drama, you will love these books. I have read the first two so far. I read it years ago and now just started it all over again. It's about a small town plain jane girl, Reed, who gets to go to the most pristine "boarding" school. Only the best of the best and the richest people go to the school. Reed got to go on a scholarship. Once there she realizes there is a lot of secrets, drama, and so much more than she bargained for in this elite school. This series has you hooked from the first page and I promise you will not be able to put it down. 

Your Man is Wonderful

Now I didn't get to read this book unfortunately. I really wanted to. I'm going to have to check it out again. So I couldn't tell you from personal experience if it is good or not, but I did read reviews. It got 3.5 stars and all reviews I did see were good. This book is (like the cover says) about how to appreciate your man, respecting the differences between you too and loving each other. I feel that sometimes Jesse and I take tough love to an extreme. I love it but I wish I could make it a tad softing (ha) so I picked up this book on what seemed like great insight on how to tweak those areas. When I get to read it again I will tell you more in depth on what I thought. 

Well, I hope you like this new segment! Tell me what you think! Should I keep doing it, is it lame? I want y'alls feedback! Give me some ideas for books to check out! Or simply, let's just talk! 

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Halloween ideas continued: late night sleepies

Hello you guys! 

Hope you all enjoyed my last post about Halloween face makeup! Hopefully it gave you something to do or at least gave you an idea! 

I was going to post later yesterday about costume ideas but when I got home I just passed out. I was beyond exhausted. For that I do apologize lol. I'll try to get something up today, for y'all! But if not please make sure you read my last post! If anything I might just post links to other pages of costume ideas, if that's all I can get in, but I'm going to try really hard to get something in!! 

Hope you all have a great day!!! 

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