Today just seems like a good day for a laugh. Maybe it’s because my kids at work made me laugh today, or maybe it’s the early onset of a three day weekend with family and all things good but it just seems like a good day for a laugh.
What a strange experience it is to go every day from graduate level seminary classes to the 2 year old world of potty training. My professors do a pretty good job of being entertaining however it’s the random, unexpected comments from my daycare kids that really get me going. So here are some of the things that they tell me:
Little girl at naptime: Did your brother paint your fingernails?
While waiting for parents to arrive at the end of the day:
Boy: what are we doing?
Me: we’re cleaning our classroom, then your dad’s going to come and pick you up, then I am going to go home.
Boy: (laughing) you can’t go home, you stay here!
Me: No, I go home at the end of the day too. I have to go home and see my mommy too.
Boy: (laughing more) You don’t have a mommy!
Little girl in the lunch line: Are you a girl?
Little girls at potty time:
Girl 1: I have pink princess underwear, what do you have?
Girl 2: I have tink-owr-belle!
Girl 1: Miss Brittany do you have Tinkerbelle underwear?
And my fave…
Little boy at snack time eating a popsicle:
Boy: (starts crying hysterically) My popsicle is up-side-down!!!
(I take the popsicle from him and turn it around and give it back.)
Boy: thank you!
That’s all I can remember right now but I’ll post more as the kids say them. I think it’s so important to always be looking for the things in life to be happy about. Sometimes working with 2 and 3 year olds can be no fun at all, but when I remember that I am doing things for God and not I it’s a lot easier. When I first started working at my job at the preschool, I just couldn’t understand why God would want me there. I really feel lead to work with children in need and these kids are definitely not needy. But they do need Jesus all the same.
There is a teacher that I work with during naptime that I really enjoy talking to. And believe it or not, she is not a Christian, but kinda, sorta interested in the subject. She asks me about seminary and my church sometimes and I get to share a little about what God is teaching me. Naptime can be pretty crazy and we only work together for an hour or two each day so sometime we don’t get to talk at all. But I am always praying for opportunities. Please pray for this new relationship! Also, there is another girl who is on lunch break with me that I am praying for opportunities to share the gospel with. This girl is so negative that most days I would prefer to eat in my car than in our break room. I’m serious, everyday it’s something. But God didn’t put here there by accident, so pray for her, and me.
Keep in mind that today is a wonderful day that God has given you! Don’t like opportunities to share Christ pass you by.
"Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an Inexpressible and Glorious Joy." 1 Peter 1:8
