Paid To Play

Yesterday as I sat in the park watching my own two children and one daycare girl play in the makeshift tree fort I had to smile. There I sat sipping my coffee and taking in the sunshine. Adjacent to the park was the hustle and bustle of parents dropping off their children at school to scurry off to work in their office buildings. Teachers' cars filled the parking lot and I watched many of them saunter aimlessly toward the school.


There certainly are days in the world of daycare that make you want to pull out each of your hairs by the root. There are days wherein you wonder what in hell you were thinking when you took on that very first child all those years ago. You wonder how it is that you made it this long in a profession that entails so much work with so little acknowledgement. And then, you find yourself at the park.


As I sit in the comfort of my own home and type this blog I have to smile. Here I am, on a Friday, blogging and drinking coffee. I do not have children to care for today because I have the opportunity to chose my hours and work days. And so it is.


Today I have gratitude for the luxuries my job affords me. None of them by accident and all of them by choice - but luxuries nonetheless. Yesterday I played at the park. I got paid to sit and sip my Starbucks and listen to children giggle. And today I enjoy the benefit of a four day week.


Enjoy your day. And when you are in the depths of hell as we have all been on many, many days come back and read this post and remember the "why" we continue to do this job.


Yesterday someone paid me to play at the park. Today I am off with my family to do a little geocaching. Yes, I am fortunate and I have tremendous gratitude.







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