This week I started full-time at the daycare across the street from us. It’s actually the same one that Josh has been working at, though he is helping lead the day camp which takes place at the community centre just 5 minutes away. 
For now I’ve left the food industry and have entered the world of soothers, story books, and change tables. It is a refreshing change I must admit. I’m such a doer and love to keep busy, so it is a challenge to slow it down and sit on the floor and play with children for most of the day, rather than filling my time with prepping food, wiping down counters and serving long lines of customers. I do believe though that being in a situation where I do need to just slow down and not rush is going to be beneficial to my personal growth. I also like getting the experience of what a mother may go through, as I care for the one year olds. There seems to be many a time where I’ll be changing one of them, heating up milk for another, encouraging the one pulling on my pant leg to go play, and hearing the cries of another one just waking from their afternoon nap, all while ‘farmer in dell’ jingles in the background. Even as I feed them yogurt or roll a ball back in forth to another, I already feel that I'll look back at this time later and count it as a precious and enriching.

We praise God that we were able to finish paying off our car which means we could start saving up for our anniversary vacation and then our next mission trip. The men’s Bible study are finishing up the letters of John and the girls and myself just read the last chapter of Galatians and we’ll be moving onto 1Peter. We’re also helping our friends to organize some youth nights: tomorrow night is a Bible study on Colossians with ice cream sundaes. It’ll be a splendid finish to a busy work week.