that help make Sundays more bearable.
1. I get ready well before I even attempt to get the little people ready. It works even better if my husband does this as well.
2. I take Advil or Excedrin before church to hopefully curtail the Primary-induced headache. (Although, this backfired last Sunday when I didn't eat very much before church and then took 1 Excedrin. Halfway through sharing time, I thought I was going to vomit.)
3. We arrive at church 20 minutes early. It's a pain, especially because the babies start to lose it right around the time church actually starts, but otherwise we don't have a hope of sitting on the soft benches. And I can't handle church on the hard chairs.
4. I sit at the end of the pew, with my husband as a buffer between me and the older kids. I obviously still have to help take care of the twins, but I find that even having one side of me that isn't sitting next to a small person helps my mental state tremendously.
5. During Primary sharing time, I try to sit as far away as possible from the child in our class who picks her nose, sucks on her fingers, and tries to climb in my lap. Oh, and last Sunday, she took her shoes off and licked the soles. Nice.
Note that I wrote these things help make Sundays more bearable. I almost wrote more enjoyable, but really, that wouldn't be the case. We're surviving, but we're not loving it yet. As my husband said the other day, "4:05 pm on Sunday is the best time of the whole week."
So true.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Hey looky there ...progress woman! I have to say I was sitting in hard chairs alone with my four kids last Sunday having been snowed in for a week and a half and knowing they were only having the 1st hour because of more snow and I was feeling your pain. People were bearing testimony that the snow was great because he gave them opportunities to serve....ugh...at that moment I was so not there...
What wonderful coping mechanisms. I'm so proud of you. Nos. 1 and 3 are on my list of survival tools for church too. Baby steps baby steps. You may never say that you enjoyed this time of your life, but I would bet that there will come a time when you will be grateful for what you learned now!
Good luck! Hope you make it through!
These are great. Should be published in the Ensign! Very practical. To this day I don't think my husband understands why I used to start getting ready for any event, church included, two hours before he did! He would see me and say something like, "Why are you getting ready so early."
Also, I think I may have had the vomiting reflex occur in the middle of sharing time even without taking Excedrin on an empty stomach.
Great post. You are inspiring!
Do you actually sit next to A or are there babies before him? Sam and I always try and sit next to each other (though the kids like to sit next to me so sometimes I feel like I am doing all the disciplining). Sometimes I look at the parents who are at either end of the children and I think it's just sad.
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