(This week, to go along with YLCF’s A Peek Into Your Week, I’m going to be taking a day-by-day look at our new schedule, as it happened last week…)
Sunday is our day of rest. Or so we like to think. When the irrigation is done for the year, we can sleep in, because Merritt doesn’t have to go out and change pipes before breakfast! We like to make a bit nicer breakfast on Sundays. Sometimes it’s Baked Oatmeal, sometimes Oven Pancake, sometimes Sourdough Waffles. The goal is to consume enough calories to keep tummies satisfied during church and the drive home, so we usually add in some protein in the form of bacon or sausage or eggs, as well (but we still pack snacks in the diaper bag!). And in the tradition my father started many years ago, my hubby cooks Sunday breakfast (and indeed, most breakfasts in the wintertime!), while I shower and start getting everyone ready. (I still remember my daddy having guys quite upset with him one Mother’s Day for saying in a sermon that it was pretty much biblical that men should make breakfast on Sunday mornings so that moms could get the kiddoes ready!)
Then Merritt did up the dishes while I chose outfits and got us girls dressed and “all beautiful”. (Sometimes Mary takes a quick Sunday morning nap, but today she’d slept in too late.) Make sure the diaper bag is stocked with Cheerios, cheese sticks, books, quiet toys, and drinks, and we’re all set. Don’t forget our Bible—or the eggs to deliver to Lorrie! The thing that always surprises me is how we can be walking out the door at 2 ’til 10 and it’s 10:10 by the time we’re pulling out our driveway!
We love our church family. And we’re enjoying the beautiful, spacious new building the church has just finished building! Most of all, we appreciate our pastor and the way he preaches straight from the Word.
The girls are still learning to sit still in church. Some Sundays are better than others. This Sunday, Aunt Mouse, Aunt Katie, and Uncle Mason were along, in addition to a friend of Aunt Mouse’s. Merritt and I are getting a bit spoiled, having people along to take care of our children recently. One of these days we’ll have to remember how to take care of them in church on our own!
Talking and fellowship, taking care of details like the nursery schedule, and then the drive home with already-exhausted little people. Leftovers are a must for lunch on Sunday—or else an easy-to-complete crock pot meal! This Sunday, though, we had a gift certificate and had planned ahead to eat out with the aunts and uncle. It’s fun to eat out sometimes, but whenever we do, I remember why don’t do it often with little ones!
Then, it’s nap time. Or at least, that’s what’s on The Schedule. Our girls aren’t always fans of naptime, though! This Sunday (once again) it was almost a lost cause before it started. I finally separated the girls and put them to bed—Mary slept, Ru didn’t. Merritt worked on his car, which had decided to die the day before, and I finished transferring the YLCF website from one host to another. There were a few more hiccups than with the other transfers, but they were due to htaccess and similar web monsters. It all finally worked, about the time Merritt got home and the girls woke up starving.
We decided on a quick dinner of leftovers, and early to bed—after talking to my parents on the phone over the high-pitched “happy” screams of an over-tired almost-3-year-old.
Merritt and I weren’t quite ready for bed as early as the girls were, though, so we watched a Charlie Chan movie from the library. The first one we watched, with the original actor, was definitely the best. But I do like Sherlock Holmes sort of detective movies. Even if they do affect my dreams!
