I love to...

Something I absolutely love love love to do is  F I S H !!!! If you know me, you know this fact about me. If I could be on the lake every weekend, I would. If I could own a boat, I would. If I needed to drive a truck in order to get a boat, I would. If I had the choice to go shopping or go fishing.... FISHING!! I went deap sea fishing out of Miami when I was 16 and I caught one of my prize posessions.

Anndd I have it on video of me reeling this sucker in! Unfortunately, I can not upload it.

There is a semi-new country song out that goes along with this and describes me perfectly!

Any other girls that would prefer to fish over shop?  Probably not... but I thought I would at least ask :-)

Bye Y'all !!

Deuces

I see a lot of people talking about "Miscellaneous Mondays." I guess since I do not have some type of theme for my blog, #ihavenoideawhatimdoingperiod , I will go ahead and post something random!
My friends and I love love love to take pictures. We take them ALL of the time. Everytime we see each other our camera is out. I'm so glad I have a lot of pictures from college that "captured" our fun memories.
We had a specific pose that we did....   DEUCES

Ah, what fun we have had! I love these girls so much! What are some things you and your besties do?

Bye Y'all !

It's My Calling

Obviously I'm still not used to this whole "blogging" thing. I apologize, I will try to make more of an effort.

What is my calling?!? Well, this will pertaining to my Interview post. I had an interview and it went great! The manager was going to talk to his boss and let me know something within the next day. Sigh of relief, right? WRONG! My current supervisor, district manager, and regional manager found out that I was trying to leave the agency. Did they give me a farewell speech and say good luck! Nope. They asked why I was wanting to leave and they wanted me to stay. I was honest and told them I just work a LOT of overtime and I don't like that I am on call 24/7. I also said that we are getting a lot of cases put on each of us to handle. They had a solution. Offer me to transfer to a smaller parish. I would get a lower caseload count and it would not be as high of a stress level.
Is this really happening? I thought my mind was made up that I was leaving foster care because I was overwhelmed. I was going to take the other job and move forward.
Then my managers gave me reasons WHY they wanted me to stay. They said I am "a people person" who works well with the clients. I am a dedicated worker who cares for people and their best interest. "You're good at what you do." The other job I had an interview work would consist of a lot of paperwork sitting in an office, however i LOVED that I began work every single day at 8:00 AM and got off at 4:30 PM, off on weekends NO MATTER WHAT. When you are a foster care worker, emergencies come up with cases and you could work late a lot.
They asked if I would at least think about it, so I did. The next day I was in the "field" all day doing family visits, visits with just parents, and visits with just the foster children. It hit me...

This is My Calling

Since I am a people person NOT a paper person. I should be out showing God's love to others. I like coming home each daying knowing I tried to make an impact in someones life. The main reason I stick around is for the kids, however I do like being there for the parents as they go through a rough time and try to find out what got them to this point. It's all about the kids.. I love love love children!
Note: the following pictures are NOT clients. They are my friend's kids! :-)

 this is little Savannah

 baby Daxtyn

 Does mommy lissie spank you hard? (hahaha kidding guys)

 Big Boy Andrew!

 so maybe I don't ALWAYS know what to do with kids lol

pleeassee stop crying  lol

What is a girl to do!?!?!?    This girl is going to continue to be a  FOSTER CARE WORKER !!!!!

Bye Y'all !!

Interview

Happy Monday!!


Today I had an interview for a new job. It was for a Social Service Analyst aka Child Support Enforcement aka get money from dead beat dads  woo hoo! The truth of the matter is, I have been at my current job for almost two years, a foster care worker. It has its pros and cons just like every job.
Pros:  get the children to laugh when they are sad, help parents get help with things they are struggling with in their life, seeing a happy ending = reunite children with their parents, and awesome co-workers.

Cons: seeing horrible abuse and neglect against children, on call 24/7, working long days/late evenings, not able to schedule anything with my personal life because something may come up with one of my cases, being overloaded with too many cases, having to answer difficult questions when kids ask such as "why can't I go home?," having to talk with the children after their parents don't show up to see them for a family visit, and being completely emotionally drained by the end of each day.

Well, thanks for letting me get that off of my chest!!! lol   I guess I will let y'all know once I hear something about my interview!!!


Bye Y'all !!

So, I'm new at this...

As you can probably already tell, I am a NEW BLOGGER! I have no idea what I am doing. Three of my best friends are doing it and I fell into peer pressure. It was a good peer pressure though, right? The main accomplice was Megan from the infamous Mackey Madness ! I hope she will be able to teach me how to do this stuff. My main excuse was that I would have nothing to talk about every day. Her response was that you don't have to talk about what you did that day. You can talk about other things. (you are a loser if you don't blog) So here I am! If anyone happens to reads this besides my 3 friends, feel free to comment on how to get this thing started because I am LOST!

                                        









Bye Y'all !

~ Candy