Grant $$

Well as some of you may or may not know....I recently received The Quality Counts Grant from Child Care Resource and Referral!! This is HUGE for me! I wrote the grant by myself and within it, asked for money to buy some outdoor toys for the kiddos as well as some multi-cultural and diversity toys. I really wasn't sure how or if I was going to get it. This was the first time that I have EVER written something like this and to top it all off...I realized about two weeks before it was due that is was due in two weeks (I thought I had another month to work on it). Oops...
So with the grant money that I received, I have ordered all of the new toys and playground stuff for the kiddos!! Now we are just wanting for it all to get here and to put it all together. We bought a wooden swing set for the backyard, and sand and water table, a climber with a slide for the younger kiddos, some people for the kids to play with, a mirror center for the babies, some toys for the sand and water table, as well as a toddler swing for the swing set. I am so excited and so are the kiddos about all of the new toys and stuff we will have to play with and enjoy the nice weather (well except for today because it is raining).
So now we just have to prepare the yard and get everything ready for this wonderful addition to Creative Kids Family Child Care!!!!!