Can we please end Church on time? I'm talking sacrament meeting. I'm trying to be better at getting to church on time, especially since I realized my main reason for being late was because I wanted to be! 10 minutes late means 10 less minutes of trying to shush and contain my kids until the blessed time for Nursery comes! I am trying to be better and it feels like Heavenly Father and I have a deal of some kind. I get us there on time and He helps me with the kids. (Can I just say here that it will be LOVELY when my husband has a job with normal hours!!!). It works for the most part, the kids are getting better, but when the hour mark comes around we're all ready for something different.
So now I guess my next self improvement is to be patient with the speakers that go 5...10 minutes over.... I wonder that they don't notice the considerable rise in children whining, crying and generally being loud. The agitated parents raising their eyebrows, tapping their feet, desperately holding a wiggling child. Or how about the mother there with 2 kids to watch all by herself - standing in the back, plain to be seen and heard, with the crying girl, while the boy decides to go lean on the dividers in the back. Mother races to the boy, hoping to be spared from the embarrassment of dividers falling! Obviously shouting for the person speaking to 'sit down for pity sake' is unacceptable - but I want to soooo bad! I have seriously given thought to bringing a big poster to hold up when it's time. I always sit in the back anyway, it wouldn't be very noticeable, but I am sure it would be much appreciated! Yes, a 'sit down' prompt may be just what we need.
Is there a better way? Does anyone have a sure fire way of keeping there kids reverent and entertained for those overflowing minutes that seem like hours? Is this not an issue with anyone else? Am I just impatient?
4 comments:
The desire of all moms, Jaime. I am always by myself too because Kevin is in the bishopric here. I totally feel for you. I bring a bag full of activities every week, trying to mix it up and put interesting things in and they could care less. At least there are a lot of kids making noise in your ward; there are only a handful of families with young kids here so when mine are misbehaving it is pretty obvious. I like your idea of a sign to hold up...I HATE when the speakers go over, absolutely get annoyed every time. Hang in there. The blessings will come someday when your children are grown and they have strong testimonies because you were dedicated and took them to church every week.
Thanks Tara! It's nice to be reminded that I'm not the only one feeling this way! And congrats on the birth of your beautiful girl!
Jamie, it is so hard, and I am lucky to have my husband there with me these days. I CRINGE when I think of him not always being on our pew, depending on what assignments he gets in the future. I try to hide the activities that I let my girls do the rest of the week so that they are fresh and exciting for them. I got one of the spiralbound picture sets from distribution as well as little card sets of pictures of Jesus and temples from Seagull Book for my kids to handle and play a matching game with. I also change things up as much as needed. I feel so much awe at what you do every week by yourself! Love you!
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