day of rest

before we had kids, we fully took advantage of our "day of rest". we slept in, barely made it to church where we could sit together, holding hands, as we would listen to and enjoy the thoughts shared with us. Then we returned home for long and lazy afternoon. Usually a nap, maybe a walk, cuddling through a movie, etc.

And then we had kids. :) And suddendly the day of rest became not so restful.

After a late night of hanging out with siblings, we managed to get the girls in bed and spend some time together. But Butterfly had an exceptionally bad nightmare and ended up cuddling in our bed. So as usual, we overslept and had a morning of chaos. I dashed between the kitchen and bedrooms to get breakfast ready and gather church clothes while daddy coralled and cleaned up the girls. After a quick bite to eat, daddy dressed the girls while I did their hair and we made it to church only about 15 minutes late.

Our first meeting was sacrament meeting and fortunately was the primary program. When we have speakers, I always feel bad at missing the messages they so carefully prepared because I'm busy trying to keep my girls from being too disruptive. But for the Primary program, its easy to feel the Spirit, without having to pay too much attention. So with our Sunday bag carefully packed with the essential cheerios, fruit snacks, coloring books, open-the-flap book and magnetic pieces to noah's ark, we managed to make it through the meeting. True, daddy had to take Ladybug for a walk outside, but all in all, it was a good meeting. Butterfly sang along with the hymns, as loud and enthusiastically as she could, despite being horribly off pitch and having no sense when to pause. Her enthusiam is wonderful and I can't help but smile.

For our second meeting, I dropped Butterfly off at nursery, where she hardly even notices me leaving (thank goodness) and daddy takes the Ladybug. Ladybug isn't old enough for nursery yet but is definitely too old to sleep or be quietly cuddled through Sunday School. I suspect they usually just play in the foyer for the sake of letting other people enjoy the meeting. But I'm off to teach my Primary class. I have ten nine-year olds who are incredibly smart and well behaved for their age. We are studying the Old Testement and they ask incredibly good and insightful questions, sometimes for which, I don't even have an answer but have to go look it up. Today we talked about Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abendago. Busy lesson, smart kids.

For our third meeting, smokin hot hubband passed the Ladybug to me. I go sit with my Primary class during their general primary meeting while he teaches the 14-15 year old young men. Usually he takes Ladybug with him since she's less distracting to his students than mine but for today, she came with me. My class, despite being the biggest, is usually the best behaved so I figured I would just sit in the back to play with Ladybug. Unfortunately, she didn't like this plan. She explored the whole room, had to interact with many of the kids, climb on chairs and taste everyone's crayons. But we managed okay until she pulled the piano bench over and smacked herself in the head. Fortunately, church ended soon and after some brief hallway mingling, we can head home.

At home, there's a flurry of discarding church clothes and preparing lunch. After lunch, both angel girls go down for naps with amazing ease and daddy has to sneak out for a meeting. Tonight we will go up to the Aunties' house to spend time with family--one of our very favorite ways to spend a Sunday evening. But in the meantime, it's time to relax to the blissful sound of naptime...

How was your Sunday?