Jul 06 2009
This is Your Vocation Calling
It is 5:22am and I am up and dressed. The house is quiet, for the moment. In a little while my new job will begin. Or is it the same job, new employer?
Some will say I’m crazy. Go ahead. You know you want to. There. Isn’t that a relief?
Today begins my latest adventure in babysitting, otherwise known as day care. My hours are flexible, my rates competitive and I have a built-in play system. This new endeavor is one part financial and 6 parts survival. People with one or two children (the ones who see me out in public with my crew and say, “I don’t know how you do it. I can hardly handle my one.”) think that adding more children into the mix is the ultimate act of lunacy. But we with larger flocks know better, don’t we. We know that with 6 you get eggroll, they come cheaper by the dozen, you can just add a little more water to the soup, the more the merrier, and more hands make light work. For me adding in a few extra children - provided there is room on the bus…and there is - makes taking care of my children that much easier. There will be new and, therefore, exciting children to play with, argue with, and make up with. A new crop to entertain with their silly jokes and home movies. I love my children and I would die for them. And when I hear the same knock-knock joke from all six of them sometimes I wish I would.
I know that there will be more noise, squabbles, quarrels, and tears but there will also be more laughter and playing. More coloring and crafts. More silly jokes and more smiles to brighten up my days. All in all not a bad way to spend a week.
