Hello

Yet another blog for me - to join the three I already have. I am an on and off blogger and don't update them very often some more than others but thought I would add another one for my childminding business. There is one connected to my website but I know what I am doing on here and can play more.

I wanted a name that was catchy or funny or stood out then I came across a video SEE IT HERE online and decided to use The Gift of an Ordinary Day.

Now I know it is none of the above things I wanted it to be but I will explain

(Please forgive me as I am about to bare my soul)

Most people I know see me and think they know me but they don't really.

I am an overweight person who works with children. I see it in their faces - how can she do her job properly - and they are probably right (even heard a so called friend comment about my weight saying something similar when she didn't know I was listening). I put on a happy confident front but inside there is something missing. 

 I watched the video and thought how lucky the lady was. 

Why? 

Because since I was a little girl I wanted to be a Mummy. 

I wanted to be married and have a big family of four children.

I wanted to be there for my children and see them grow up. 

It has never happened but I have a lovely husband 


I would rather have a life with him and no children than a life without him 

I am blessed to know him but a little part of me knows something is missing from our life.

I have other childminders question why I do this job as I don't have children of my own. I have even had parents question my motives for being a childminder as they think it odd that someone who has no children of her own wants to be a childminder. These comments hurt but you learn to patiently explain that since being 3 years old and starting playgroup I wanted to be a teacher. I wasn't clever enough to do A levels so did the next best thing (in those days) and went to be a  nanny.

I found a vocation I loved. 

I still have contact with most of the families I nannied for. I then spent 3 months in a nursery not my cup of tea and that's all I am saying (it was a bad experience for me that meant it took a year of cleaning for a living - which I loved - before finally sending off my registration forms with a weekly phone call from the childminding development officer asking if I had sent them off.  Bless you Julie what did I do to you for that year). I loved nannying and always said when I had my own children I would childmind as it was the next best thing to my nanny job. Sadly the children didn't arrive but instead I have been blessed.

I have been in childcare 30 years next year

(if I say it quickly it doesn't seem that long)

I love my job and it is the best job in the world. I can think of nothing better than spending a day in the company of children. I have cared for many many children from the age of four months up to 12 years. I am still in contact with many of them but all of them have filled our lives with fun and joy. The video is talking about being a parent but I feel that it can apply to how I feel.  I may not have given birth to a child but I have held a baby at less than a day old, I have changed nappies and yes I have even had sleepless nights (not many admittedly as they usually sleep for me when they stay over).

So what seems like an ordinary day to most people is a day filled with fun, joy and laughter in more ways than one 

~A GIFT~

We are so lucky and honoured 

that parents have trusted 

the care of the most precious thing in their life to us

Hopefully you will enjoy reading about our adventures that we have during our ordinary day. I can't promise to post regularly but I will try to update regularly.