I AM Back!

I Am Back...

Yes, I have decided to start posting on my blog again after almost 7 years!  So much has happened, I have stopped selling Stampin' UP!  I really couldn't keep on doing it because I was spending too much money for the products even though I loved making cards...it's an expensive hobby.  Unfortunately, I wasn't interested in the recruiting part and that is the best was to make money in direct sales.

So what was I doing in the meantime?  I started my Oklahoma State Licensed Home Childcare by going through the licensing process. I had to have my background checked, first for a friend whom I subbed for in her home childcare.  Later on I had to be fingerprinted!  You know, like I was under arrest!  As did my husband, my daughter, my substitutes,  etc. (insert eyes-roll)

The list of things I was required to do entailed:  Contact DHS to inquire about all the steps involved in doing this.  Give them my personal and vital information.  It was a slow process but I had to get our home ready to accept children into the childcare.  You know, all the electrical outlets had to be covered.  Get CPR and First Aid training.  Get a fire extinguisher!  Get a Carbon Monoxide Tester!   Smoke alarms in every room!  Supplies to buy!  The list goes on and on...

...but I loved kiddos and I knew I wanted to do this more than working in a doctor's office, or in a store or in a donut shop, or at substituting for teachers or assisting at a church office or even being a school teacher as I had been accredited to do several years ago.  I loved reading stories to them, playing games with them, holding them as I rocked them to sleep. I loved to watch them eat their food, oh my goodness, they could be so messy!  I loved to let them play in the sandbox, swing or slide on the swing set.  I loved to hear their laughter and giggles.

 Did I tell you that I had done this (opened my own Childcare) way back after I'd had my daughter who is grown now with children of her own?  Yes, way back when she was about 6 months old. It was so long ago that I don't think the state of Oklahoma was requiring folks to be licensed then, hee-hee!  That story is for another day.

I should say that I might be changing the name of my Blog soon. But, we will see! I'm learning that Blogspot isn't set up quite the same as before when I used it.  I'm not sure how to do all the things it says to do.

Today's scripture:  "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."  Psalms 51:10 KJV