Lately I have really been trying to find the balance between work and my family. Some people look at the fact that I am a stay at home mom and are jealous and think it is easy...Let me just tell you, it is work when you run a daycare from home! I can deal with the on your feet 12 hours straight, wiping noses, changing diapers, toddler tantrums, late pick-ups and on and on...What is hard is making my children understand that THEY are still my priority. All day from before they even wake until almost dinner time, my life is full of several other little ones and my girls can get, well a little jealous because at the end of the day I'm too tired for them. I have really been working on this and I have had a blast spending time with them outside in the pool, taking family trips anywhere to just escape the house and cuddling with them more than ever. I absolutely am blessed for being able to have a career where I am home with my own children and other amazing children and I hope as my children grow, they will appreciate and respect that I picked my career for them. I picked it so I would have the freedom to not only have a job, but be a mom while doing it each day. I feel God led me to opening up my own daycare and I know that God has worked in me so much over the past year and helped me grow as a woman, a mother, a business owner and He has definitely helped me with patience along the way!;) Just yesterday I was speaking to a daycare provider that ran a large care daycare for 11 years and recently shut down. She put it very well with simply saying "it takes a special kind of person to run a daycare". So very true. Not trying to pat myself on the back, but it is a very fun, tough and rewarding job! Nothing makes me beam with pride more than listening to a 2 year old recite The Pledge Of Allegiance or a 3 year old that can show me the month of their birthday and spell it, it's the little things that make me so proud! Just knowing that I helped them do that. It's amazing!
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