The New Year
The New Year.
Those words have a bit more meaning for the Brutton family this year. There will be a lot of ‘new’ for the Happy Little Family 2.0 in 2011.
The first ‘new’ begins on January 4th when our nanny reports for duty.
Yep. I hired a full time nanny. Her name is Candy.
Waiting . . .for . . .that . . .to. . .sink . . .in.
Ok, now, I know what you are thinking, but just stick with me for a minute.
I met Candy through a local placement service here in St. Louis. She is a career nanny who has been in the business for over 20 years. She has experience with kids of all ages and is well qualified for what we need.
So that’s the professional resume, but here’s the cool part. Candy is an active member of her church. She is a Sunday School teacher. She is an AWANA leader. She shares the same beliefs and values that we do. She has been without a full time family for almost a year. In that time, she turned down several offers, which caused her a significant financial burden. But you see, she was waiting for the right family. She didn’t know it at the time, but she was waiting for a family that really needed her. A family that is both healing and hurting. A family that shared her faith, and like her, had been sustained and provided for through so many difficult days in 2010.
She was waiting for us.
She was the only person the placement agency had available that fit my criteria.
Does anybody want to still question whether there is a plan in place? Really? Seriously?
Now don’t you feel bad about what you were thinking when you heard her name was Candy?
One last thing before I go. In the next couple of weeks, I am going to be working on getting the house cleaned up and de-cluttered. A lot of stuff has accumulated here in the last few months. Today, I was going through some stuff when I found a little purple cardboard box wrapped in plastic. I figured it was something the kids brought home from school or church, and I was about to throw it away, but I figured I better look at it first.
I turned it over. I smiled. I decided to keep it.
Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!
