Sundays
I love Sundays. I love our church family, and I love worshipping with them.
But, when you have a small child, Sundays are HARD! Caleb's misses his morning nap, which usually makes him very cranky. We took Caleb to his Bible class for the first time yesterday. He did great. We picked him up after class to take him to service, not knowing how long he would act "appropriately" and get to stay. Not long. His Daddy did the Scripture reading and led the opening prayer, and the whole time he was up there, I was trying to cover Caleb's mouth to stop him from LOUDLY blowing spit all over me and everyone within a five foot radius. Needless to say, he didn't stay long! We sent him back to the nursery, which is also his first time for this. One of us usually takes him out to the foyer. Justin leaned over after he took Caleb to the nursery and commented on how we hadn't really sat together in church for about 7 months. Wow, enjoying a whole sermon together! Well, about 5 minutes later, we were summoned out of service to the nursery where ALL the babies had started crying and scared Caleb, who also started screaming uncontrollably. There weren't enough hands to go around and hold all the babies who were crying! Justin calmed him down and he was fine from then on. It's a lot of work to take a baby to church!
But, when you have a small child, Sundays are HARD! Caleb's misses his morning nap, which usually makes him very cranky. We took Caleb to his Bible class for the first time yesterday. He did great. We picked him up after class to take him to service, not knowing how long he would act "appropriately" and get to stay. Not long. His Daddy did the Scripture reading and led the opening prayer, and the whole time he was up there, I was trying to cover Caleb's mouth to stop him from LOUDLY blowing spit all over me and everyone within a five foot radius. Needless to say, he didn't stay long! We sent him back to the nursery, which is also his first time for this. One of us usually takes him out to the foyer. Justin leaned over after he took Caleb to the nursery and commented on how we hadn't really sat together in church for about 7 months. Wow, enjoying a whole sermon together! Well, about 5 minutes later, we were summoned out of service to the nursery where ALL the babies had started crying and scared Caleb, who also started screaming uncontrollably. There weren't enough hands to go around and hold all the babies who were crying! Justin calmed him down and he was fine from then on. It's a lot of work to take a baby to church!
posted by Jennifer at 10:24 AM
3 Comments:
Hang in there! It doesn't get less distracting for you, but it does get better for everyone else. What good training you are starting EARLY!!!!!! Use the nursery, but also try letting Caleb sit as long as you can! Also STICKERS are great distractors here really soon!
You two are such amazing parents. What a blessing you are to be so devoted to that little boy and showing him early on how much it is worth to fellowship with the family of God! A preacher in Amarillo always says that he loves to hear the sounds of babies crying in the service because it shows him that the church is growing and that parents are committed to bringing their children. No one minds as much as you think! I love you!
Oh, this is sooooo cool! I'm so glad you commented on my blog ... our boys are doing the exact same things!
Hunter is blowing spit, raspberries, bubbles -- whatever he can get out of his mouth. He also shreiks at the top of his lungs and then drops down really low. It's hilarious!
I hear ya on Sundays being hard! So are Wed evenings! And Board meetings? Forgetaboutit!
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