A warning upfront- I'm in a foul mood and this could translate into either a really great sarcastic funny blog or just a bunch of whining. I'll let you know when its over. First off, I just finished reading the final book in the Hunger Games series and it didn't go my way. (That's not why I'm in a bad mood, I'm not that nutty) But, seriously?! what was that girl thinking?? I'll try not to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read them all but I'd like to erase the last 10 pages from my head and come up with my own alternate ending. Okay I'm going to ruin it so if you haven't read it and want to..... well leave now. Okay you missed your chance. How?? How could she choose Peeta over Gale? Yeah, yeah I know it wasn't really a love story, whatever. She's a fighter and she chose the lover not the fighter? I don't get that at all and quite frankly pretty sure Miss Collins got it all wrong.
But that's not what's got me all grouchy and its about as important as the late breaking news on the E channel. Really, I'm in a bad mood about church today. Don't worry I'm not upset with the Pastor and I can't say I was upset by anything he said, because I barely heard a word he said. His children were behaving so badly I doubt anyone heard him!!
I'm so thankful for our little congregation. Among many other things, the pray for us, encourage us, and just plain love us! And they tolerate our very noisy children. Well mostly its just the girls. Caleb is old enough and smart enough to keep quiet and behave properly in church, but the girls seem bent on driving me insane. And its working. Tim pastors at a small country church and there are many Sundays where our kids are the only young ones there so we don't have children's church regularly.
I am determined that they can and will learn to sit in church without causing an uproar but today they provided much evidence to the contrary. If you have noticed any families with small children who at one time came to your church but aren't there anymore, I know why. They are exhausted. Totally drained from trying to keep their small kids in the pew and listen to the pastor. More than once today while holding on to a foot disappearing beneath the pew I thought "it would be so much easier to stay at home".
The girls are waging a war against my sanity and they are winning. I'm pretty sure I've developed a twitch. I cannot personally tell you anything that Tim preached today. Emorie screamed off and on during both morning and evening services and we of course had to leave church once each service for Audrey to use the restroom. And in the end I finally gave up and left both services feeling like we were totally preventing everyone else from focusing. The look on Emorie's little face was sheer triumph! Grrrrrrrrr! I know, this too shall pass. They will grow up and I will survive. Caleb is proof. And I will cling to the knowledge that one day we can sit in peace. I just hope by that time we haven't run everyone else off and find ourselves sitting alone in church :(
Encourage the young parents in your church. Help them when you can, tolerate them when you can't. It would be easier for them to stay at home but that is not where they need to be. Love them even if you don't love the distraction they cause.
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