Working

After about 8 weeks in Atlanta, I finally feel like I'm starting to get to know people here. The weird thing is, though, that all of these people that I'm getting to know are mommies and they want me to babysit their kids. Now, don't get me wrong, this is not a bad thing at all, by any means. I enjoy babysitting and I think I'm pretty good at it too. I just find it such a contrast from New York, where their are very few families with children that need to be babysat. (I just happened to belong to a babysitting agency in New York and although they got business, it was nothing like here.) Here it seems that finding a young woman who is available and willing to watch children is like finding a gold mine, oh and if you can do odd jobs it's a total plus!

One family has me working in their home office and also has my number on the sitters list in case they need an emergency substitution to look after their one-year-old daughter. She told me that one of her friends has been meaning to call me because she also needs a babysitter. I'm also in the middle of helping one woman put together her Christmas cards, I babysat her kids tonight, and I get to babysit them again tomorrow. This woman has two adorable little boys who are just big balls of energy. They are very different from babysitting little girls. (I will refer you to a post that my husband has on his blog from June 13th of this year, Lessons from a 4-year-old.) I'm looking forward to babysitting these boys again because I don't think I was a very fun babysitter tonight. (It was a last minute thing and it was only supposed to be for a very short amount of time.) Boys can run around and enjoy being outdoors and like showing off to impress you no matter who you are. They like playing games, but they can also just be entertained with a cardboard box by turning it into a fort or house or something like that.

So these jobs are really fun and a great way to stay involved with people at the church, make a little extra money, and just stay active in general. I do, however, still have a desire to sing and I wonder sometimes what I'm supposed to do with that. Do I keep working these odd jobs with these really amazing families that I keep meeting, or do I keep waiting to see if God wants to do something else with me. My opinion is that I'm not disciplined enough to wait right now and stay focused on making my voice better or writing music or something like that. Maybe if I keep working on these jobs I'll get jump-started into having a passion to do my own thing and develop my music and use my passion for music to serve God.

Ok, I'm rambling at this point. I didn't talk a lot today or watch my 5 hour dose of the Disney channel so I think that's where this is coming from. Hmmm, maybe I just need to stop stimulating my sense so that my brain can actually have time to think on it's own. Maybe work is what I need right now.