So today Rich had to leave on an airplane on a buisness trip. Alex was the only one of the kids up this morning before he left. That meant I got to get all the girls up, fed, dressed, and ready for church along with myself.
No biggie right? Well the biggie is that I'm not used to doing that. I usually get myself ready on sunday morning, Rich get's the little girls ready and I just have to remind them to brush their hair as we drive up to church. :)
I was pleased that we were all at church before the meeting started. Everyone had eaten breakfast, had clean church clothes on and had their hair brushed.
Then Alyssa leaned over and told me she didn't feel very good... and coughed... and it sounded very uncomfortable... She leaned over and spent all of Sacrament Meeting just leaning on me and reminding me that she didn't feel good.
So I figured I would be loading everyone back up into the car and taking everyone home after the first meeting.
And I told the kids this, and I thought they would be pleased.. they wouldn't "have to" stay at church for the rest of the meetings.
But they didn't want to go home. They wanted to stay. I asked each one individually, and they each made the decision that they wanted to go to their classes and have a ride home with someone else. Even my little four year old that I lovingly refer to as my "velcro babe".
And so I got rides home arranged for my three kids, and I arranged for Rich's sunday school class to be combined with another class, and I brought my one little sick girl home.
I guess we are doing something right if the kids want to stay at church when given the option to go home early, and I guess that perhaps there is a lesson for me to learn in there too... they wanted to be there, they knew that was where they should be at that time, and they choose to be there. Sometimes I loose sight of that in thinking of responsibilities and things that I have to be at church for and I don't particularly want to be at church for those things... I need to remember their simple decision and make that choice to "want" to be at those activities and meetings.
