This past week we started out with a video that was put together by Bethel "Loving Our Kids on Purpose." Such an eye opening series. When our supervisor told us that we would be watching this I was like...."Why?? I don't have any kids. Great another lame video to watch." but I was wrong. It was awesome. I learned so much from it!! I highly recommend it to anyone who is connect with children of any age (teachers, counselor, parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent etc...) The video teaches you how to love your children (Love language) and let them make the responsible decision. Honestly, I wish my parents would of watched it. (I'm not stating that my parents are horrible and did a crappy job raising my brother and I because they did a WONDERFUL job.) If you can rent it from some where or if you would like to see a copy I would love to give you one. If it was a scoring on Rotten Tomatoes I would give it a 98% (They never give 100%) Here is the link: Loving Our Kids on Purpose
Later in the week we had our CPR & First Aid Training. That is a tough class. Not tough as in I'm scared I'm not going to pass it but tough as in I don't think I'm going to be able to stay awake. A dark room and a movie going...I'm out in 5 minutes. I didn't do that though in this class. It was very educational but EXTREMELY long!!! First Aid part was boring because it was just knowledge of what to do. Very informative but not my cup of tea. I'm a hands on girl.I like to get in there and learn by doing. That was CPR. We had our little dummies and the whole time we were in the class I just kept thinking of The Office Episode where they had that training. Please, enjoy this hilarious clip that was running through my head the whole time. Needless to say I laughed a lot. Our instructor had seen the show so he would play along too.
Friday, evening Channel 13 came to the house to talk to the big man on campus our wonderful director Jeff. It is such a joy to tell and teach people about what we do and about Modern Day Slavery. People it is happening right in your backyard. That's another blog and another time to discuss.
Saturday, we went and checked out the local community pool and that was so much fun. Note to self wear sunscreen. We got a little toasty. My arms feel like the sheets our made of cacti. It's painful.
Went home Saturday afternoon and visited with my mom (which was a good visit) and then went across the street and celebrated my neighbors birthday. Reminisced about the old days and told fun stories and just had a blast.
Sunday, didn't do much but go to my cousins house and love on my little guy. Who now talks and smiles at me. He is such a precious baby boy. Met up with my parents for some ice-cream. Can't complain about free ice-cream. :)
We have the rest of this week for training so that means by next Monday we can have a girl living in the house. Talk about craziness!!! We are getting really excited though....On that note....Please pray for us House Moms and for the organization, for the girls that will be living n the house, the new house mom's and for the up coming year. It's going to be an emotional, physically and mentally draining but God will be right next to us wrapping his loving arms around us. Thank you for all your support and prayers!!
