my family love our CM because she is one exceptional, gifted, kind and loving woman.
She lavishes each and every child in her care with attention and warmth. She is sensitive to all of their needs and has an uncanny way of working with and building on their strenghts.
Her house is a shrine to fun, pictures children have done on all the walls, the garden given over to messy play.
My eldest can't wait to get their in the mornings and doesn't want to leave at night.
My youngest had difficulties separating from me when I began back at work and wouldn't eat or drink for CM, crying all the time. CM asked if she could come and be part of some family mealtimes at home (out of her working hours) so that little one began to associate her with food and family.
The children have all developed bonds of easy friendship with one another and act in brotherly/ sisterly ways towards eachother.
She is the mother I aspire to be at times in that when she is with the children she gives all of herself to them- when I pick DD up often she and they are dancing with abandon, laughing, happy. They head off to the woods for the day and come back rosy cheeked and full of tales of adventure.
She has added so much to all of our lives and we feel priveldged to know her and to have such care and love invested in our girls. She loves and understands children and how it shows.