Time is flying by its actually quite scary i keep thinking to myself how is soo much happening so quickly... I have had my ups and downs with illness over the past few weeks i managed to be bitten by spiders on my face, in my hair and on my wrist, which ended me up in hospital once again.
I have also made time for myself on the weekends as they are supposedly my off days ... meaning it doesnt always happen like that... I have been out on my friends boat, Jetski and had wonderful evenings with friends and people I now class as family
one of our precious little girls fell in love with her forever family and moved overseas.
Public holidays in South Africa can be quite hectic. Everyone is off work so the volunteers really have to step up. I was asked by management if I could work with my friend Kay from Saturday morning at 8am until monday at 4pm with 10 of the children aged from 2- 7 years. To say I was scared and stressed was understatement 10 children to feed, dress, cream adminster crutial medications and to calm down to get to sleep was going to be interesting.
I had said to Kay that I thought we should take them for an outting as it could get boring being at TLC the entire weekend. So Saturday morning we packed up our bags (nappy bags with a spare outfit hat and suncream for each child) we headed off to the local Tesco which here is called Pick n Pay ... I jumped out brought a whole lot of picnic stuff and headed in the car for around an hour... this was the longest car journey they had ever been on for many of the kids at TLC so we played multiple games...
spot the yellow car and the LOOOOK OOOUUUTTT game under every bridge we passed.
Here is the Handover message that I sent to management and the rest of the caregivers from that busy Saturday Exploring Willow feather farm in Centurion.
The lions and tigers were very excited to see Me, Kay and baby L on arrival. ❤️
Baby L had a quick play date with them and then returned back to his house 🏡I asked the kiddies what they had planned for us to do for the weekend …. And they all looked at me very confused 🤔After a little while of playing outside Kay had the bright idea 💡 to take a picnic to a wonderful little spot farrrr away in centurion 🌎We packed up, went to the toilet and headed to the car for a fun day of adventures…We stopped off at pick n pay and I jumped out and got picnic food for everyone 🥗🍉🍌🥖 - the kiddies were very concerned that Kay was going to leave me there….When we were on our journey we played the LOOK OUTTTT 👀 game under every bridge and the spot muffassa yellow car 🚙 - yoh these kids are quick at finding things….Once we arrived at our destination we played on multiple new jungle gyms, had multiple toilet breaks… snack of yoghurt and juice🥤 then we wondered round feeding the geese and looking at all the wonderful smelly animals ….🐷🐽🐥🦆🐓🐇🐄🐪🐠🐟🐮We had our picnic 🧺 and I made the quick decision after about 25 more minutes of swinging on jungle gyms that it would be best to head home 🏡 as things started to become emotional 😥We got in the car just in time for nap time 😴…. Did they tho …. NO!!Child T, R and A were a little sleepy 🥱 however no one else napped …. Toddler J told me he’s a big boy now 🙈 - and didn’t sleep at all!!!!Once we arrived home 🏡 we played outside in the garden with some visitors bounced on the trampoline enjoyed colouring and mopping the floor….Kay made them there own stone friends by painting and naming them - all equipment was returned to preschool unharmed 🙂Dinner was lasagna and Child R had vegan Mac n cheese 🧀 with veggies 🥕Everyone ate everything although some took a little convincing 🥰The girls then had a relaxing peaceful bath 🛀 and foot massage whilst the boys where boys outside with KayThen the boys bathed whilst they girls watched a movie 🎥Everyone was creamed and all medications administered!! 💊(Thankyou muffassa)Snack was flings and everyone ate whilst watching the movie 🍿We all did our teeth 🦷 washed our faces and went for a weeeee before 🛌.Everyone got into bed calmly we then had prayers 🙏 stories 📕 goodnight cuddles and kisses 😚 and everyone went to sleep 😴 without any problem …. They were all fast asleep by 20:20 🥰Washed up, swept 🧹 mopped, folded laundry and got out clothes ready for another fun filled day tomorrow ❤️Sorry guys for the loonnnggg handover 😘🤣😴xx
The following day I decided that it would be a wonderful experience to take the 10 kiddies to Church in Centurion an hour away again. Its the church me and Kay try to go to every week and its very child friendly. We dressed them in smart clothes. Im gutted I didnt get a photo because they looked adorable.
headed off in the car on another adventure to church. When we were about 10 minutes away it started to sink in that these younger children had never been to an actual church. we read the bible to them and pray with them but they had never got to experience the actual feeling of being in church. I was a bit aprehensive because the children havent really been with other children. So I looked at kay and smiled. We both knew it was going to be difficult even just transporting 10 children from the car in to kids church it was going to be a mission with the 2 of us adults. However we did it. God is awesome and incredible and showed me so much on that weekend with the kiddies. Everyone at church was so welcoming and even tho they were shocked to see the amount of children you could tell that they loved them like there own. The children had an incredible time and many of them asked to go back another time. They got to meet other children and learn about the Love that God has for them. It was wonderful to hear all of there stories in the car journey home about how much fun they had knowing that God loved them.
Our weekend was hard stressful, full of love and joy. We did many different activities that weekend and they all had so much fun. We even managed to take them on a 2 hour walk from the property in a circle and back home again. We walked on walls, watched rabbits hop across the road and we talked lots about our favourite parts of the weekend.
Sooo so much has happened recently what with no power and electricity and multiple health problems it has been hard to write and post blogs... this is just a snippet of my life at TLC and I am busy the majority of the time so Im sorry if it takes long to post.
Thankyou so much for giving the kiddies the opportunity to go on these fun exciting adventures they absolutely loved it xxx
