September 7, 2010
Spent the morning working in the toddler room and, when I got to work, Jan was in there babying Yailyn. Doing whatever I could to entertain myself so that I didn't have to listen to Jan and get annoyed, Alex decided to knock all of the blocks over after I had just cleaned them up. So, I said, "Okay. You decided to know them over after your friends just cleaned them up, so you get to help me pick them up." Jan, of course, had something to say and told me that I needed to make it sound positive. Ummm.. No. The child needs to learn cause and effect in a world dominated by things you can't do. It's not like I yelled at him or told him he was a bad child. I simply stated the facts that he's clean it up. Thank God my back was to her because I'm pretty sure my face said exactly what I was thinking.
I then blessedly got to leave the room with Jan and Yailyn and go and work in the preschool room for an hour. Came back to the toddelr room and Yailyn was still doing diapers. Today was the day that we had the Hispanic luncheon with parents, so I had 6 children and 4 parents in the room. Trying to serve everyone and get situated, I ran out of tortillas, so I asked Yailyn if she could buzz up front (my hands were wrist-deep in food, serving up the parents and children) and she flat out said, "No, I can't. I'm changing diapers." I wanted to be like, "Well, yes, you are. But, diapers should've been done ten minutes ago and you should be helping me." But, I didn't. I asked Latoya if we had more food and she freaked out on me and told me that I had more than enough in front of the parents. When I said that we needed more tortillas, she was all like, "Oh, yeah. I can go ask Rob for some." People need to stop jumping to conclusions and yelling when it's not warranted or I may go insane. Getting more food, I finished feeding everyone and trying to build a relationship with the parents and Yailyn wasn't even in the room. She went to go put new sheets over the mats, which I had already had the foresight to do, knowing she didn't want to be in the room with the parents. Fed up that I was the only one doing anything, I told her that I was leaving for my lunch and that she needed to sit down. Not doing anything, I finally just politely excused myself from the parents and walked out of the room. So ridiculous. I know. I use that word a million times, but I can't really find any other "nice" word to suffice for my work experience here.
At lunch, I went and checked my mail and got a letter from Darrick, but got an e-mail that said he took an overtime shift and I wouldn't be able to talk to him. Upset from the day's events, I wanted nothing more than to talk to him, but he's right. He should take all the overtime while I'm overseas, so we'll have more time together when I'm home. *Sigh*
Had a relatively easy afternoon. Went to the coffee shop after work and got to Skype chat with my mom and see all the daycare kids. My nephew informed me that he will be Iron Man for Halloween and Van lost a frog and Abby says, "Touchdown" now and puts her hands up in the air and Rocko's feet are getting so big. Makes me miss those kiddos so much. Talked to Julie from Germany and discovered that we will both be in Ireland for Thanksgiving, so we are going to try and meet up with them, which should be a ton of fun! Erin found out that her dog was put to sleep, so she was crying and so we did the only thing we know how to do - Laugh. We watched some Grey's Anatomy and discovered that we could clap with our feet, which resulted in our giving a round of applause. We also learned that I can make a really good bad impression of Christina Yang's crying moments in the saga. ha ha
Things I learned today:
1. When the world is so bad, the only thing to make it better is to laugh.
2. "Ridiculous" is quickly becoming my most overused word in the English dictionary. Thanks, Croughton.
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