Written Reflection 1 -- The First Two Weeks

As my title suggests, I've gone to serve at Step By Step for two weeks now, and this past week was even more fun, exciting, and even a little bit more overwhelming than the first. It started off slow. Once again, I was in the baby room, and we had about 6 or 7 volunteers. It was the perfect amount... for the previous week's number of children. Two babies were dropped off at the beginning and here was a large lull before we got another, putting us into a false sense of security and having us joke around that we would be fighting over who got to hold the ones we had. Not too long after, we were hit full force by wave after wave of incoming baby: a tidal wave of cute.

The baby I watched napped for a solid 30

I suppose that it would have been even more frightening if we hadn't also been hit by a wave of volunteers coming to our rescue (and we needed them... the babies may have outnumbered the initial volunteers 2:1). For every extra baby that came into our room, another volunteer would magically appear to come and save the day so everyone could focus all of their attention onto one child. If you've ever worked with babies, you know that this is what's needed. And our advisors did know this. 

Our fearless leader, Tanya Torp

That's one of the things I've noticed and loved about Step By Step. The people in charge are so well-informed and knows exactly what to do and when to do it in order to maximize the effectiveness of everyone's work and help the mothers in the best way possible. They know how to provide care in more than just the obvious ways. This efficiency makes accomplishing their mission even easier. 

And what is that mission? Of course, it's to provide care and love for single mother's as they try and get through life when they might have no one else to help them get through it. Step By Step helps single mothers escape the clenched fists of poverty and even works to reduce the stigma against single mothers in our society. From what I've seen, it's working.