My weekend with the kids - Part 1

I never considered myself a maternal person. Though I never disliked kids, I wasn't good with them. They were cute but I had the attitude of “don't expect me to feed, bathe or change their nappies. No way”. This carried on until about 2 years ago when I was invited to help volunteer looking after children who attended the Children's Biblical Centre at my church. I was hesitant at first but as I like challenges, I decided to give it go. 

Working with children changed me completely and I started to warm towards children so much so that I looked after my friend's kids for a whole weekend. If I would have been asked to do this 2 years ago I would have said "no". I was initially asked back in April so I had around 5 months to prepare myself. I didn't think much about it until my friend reminded me two weeks ago. By then my life had become so busy and I was finding it hard to manage my own time, working, making time for myself and others, separating time to study in the evening as well as working on my business and fulfilling responsibilities I have.

 I knew that the children would be my sole responsibility and that I wasn't just babysitting them for a few days but taking care of them and playing the role of a mother in the absence of their own mother. With this in mind I endeavoured to do as much work as I could and what needed to be taken care of during the week so my full concentration would be on the kids. 

 A week before it was confirmed that the funeral of someone I knew would be on the same day that I would start looking after the kids! Uh Oh! What was I going to do? 

 To be continued.