God is taking care of me

Thank-you Robyn for your reminder :) In the world of school-age child care it goes something like this. The center opens at 7am and closes again when everyone is off to school. Since we don't have kinders that come BEFORE their session at 10 we are closed from 8:30- until 11:30 hen we pick up the "early birds" kinders who have been in school since 8:30. We run a Kindergarten Plus program that is meant to be an extension of Kindergarten. We work with the Kider teachers to make sure that we are hitting the same components at the same time. Then at 2:45 the 1st-5th graders get out. We close at 6 pm. The state ratio is 14 children to ONE qualified "teacher". We see 20 in the morning, and then we see 20 kinders from 11:30-2:30 and then we see oh...about 50 fron 2:45-6. We should have 4 staff members in the afternoon to cover our center. At his point on the payroll we have myself and my assistant Director (she is sent from God...really). We have been getting subs in daily to help us and even my supervisors have come so that we stay in state ratio. We have the highest enrollment in this area but the least amount of staff. also I leave and pump two times a day but thank-God for Tricia, a substitute teacher for Santa Ana unified that comes in just for me to pump and to close my center from 4:30-6 (another one sent from God).

So...with all that said, the morning shift the one that runs before school is the hardest to cover. Who wants to come in the morning. Well...one of the subs that was sent from another center to coover in the afternoon...out of the GOODNESS of her heart (no idea she is beng used by God) does not want to work the morning and declined the offer of the position but said...drum roll please...that she will work each and every morning until we hire somone, no mtatter how long it takes!

So there is my story of how God is taking care of me.