I am just curious if I am just an inconsiderate lame-o. Not in general, but concerning the following:
I just get done substituting for the CTR 7 group yesterday. Those kids were monsters, but back on the subject...I am TIRED! I need to find my child who every Sunday feels it necessary to show everyone in the ward what she has completed in class. (I'm glad she's happy with what she's accomplished and enthusiastic about her lesson, but it makes it very difficult to find her)resulting in me looking all over the danged building. Next, I need to retrieve my other child from nursery. Keep in mind I am lugging a huge diaper bag stuffed with diapers and toys, my scriptures, and hefting my 22 lb. baby in my arms. I then need to haggle 4 coats on (mine plus kids) and wait for the hub to get out of Elder's Quorum. I return materials to the library and on my way out I run into my visiting teacher who hasn't been to my home since October. "Hi, can we come over next Sunday at 2?" Church gets out at noon, afterwards I need to get lunch ready, eaten, cleaned up, and 3 children off to nap. I generally want to nap as well. "Uhh, sure could you come a little later?" "Yes, "she says as she proceeds to tell me about their other appointments, and why later will be better or might possibly be better, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
*sigh* I just wanna go home, people! I am tired, but please, if you need to talk to me, call me on the phone. If you need to talk to me, do it before church, or try to catch me before sunday school or relief society starts. Please! Once I got stopped because someone wanted to tell me my daughter had to read something in primary and read it beautifully, and all the virtues and vices of having her read so well at such an early age. As well as exercises and activities I could do with her to help develop her left brain thinking. Aughhh! CALL ME! I am struggling to get out of there, don't get me wrong I love church but I'm not really wanting to discuss things like that right at this very moment as my very large baby is slipping out of my arms.
Am I the only one who struggles to actually return home from church?
Whew, okay, I just needed to get that off my chest. Thank you, I'm done.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Only Me?
Posted by A. Simpson at 8:41 PM
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I hate lingering after church too! Jim always has to talk to like 400 people on our way out the door and it makes me cranky! I need to eat after church! You are not alone. Maybe you could ask Ky to meet you somewhere so you don't have to go hunting. Make Darnell get Bo from nursery. ? That may shorten the stress a bit.
Oh man! You know I don't have that problem at the moment byt when I was a missionary....I know this will sound bad but after chruch and the million things we had to do before and after church, I wanted to get out of there! Everyone wanted to talk to us and make appointments for this or that or tell us about anything and everything. That was hard for me! I loved my mission and the memebers but sometimes even missionaries need to take a breather! So in some way I feel your pain. Also, maybe that what you get for being so friendly! Start being not so nice and maybe they'll leave you alone!
I would have to agree with your friend Kadee. Can Darnell help with the rounding up process? I think everyone likes to get home after church. I hate people making appointments on Sunday as well. Oh well at least we know what not to do right?
I think it is a Star Valley thing! Clay really will not call people on the phone, so he is always trying to set up appointments for home taching after church! Especially when I am tired and hungry, and the boys are screaming to get home because they haven't napped all through chruch!
(P.S. If I ever try to talk to you after church just tell me to shut up and call ya later!)
Amen sister! What is it about people that they can so easily ignore the painfully obvious and continue blindly and doggedly (like that word? it seemed to work just right there....=))with their own agenda? People....I tell ya!!!
True that. I swear EQ gets out late so we do all the work after we already gave a lesson and they just sat through one. Then, they have meetings after Church for 20 minutes, so I am hauling heavy car seat, diaper bag, lesson materials etc and trying to push my way through hoards of people whilst my two year old is zooming down the hallway at the speed of light able to cruise past people I can't get through. And, as he is making his way to the doors and the very dangerous parking lot (with people going in and out and not paying attention to unaccompanied said toddler) I'm trying to fight my way to keep up and people are stopping to talk to me. Hello? Possible death of child on line here people! Finally get both kids into car (and Sam is a monster to put into car seat) and they're starving for food and crying for a nap and then husband comes striding to car happy and wondering why wife is cranky and upset and mad at him. Yes, I understand and feel your pain. The end.
What saves my life at church is my nifty HugaMonkey baby sling. I just stick fatty in it and put him on my back and -Voila- hands free to rustle up the other two kids with all of their accompanying stuff. I'm excited for these warmer days, because then you can leave the baby seat in the car and not have to lug it around. Seriously, EVERYONE get a HugaMonkey baby sling at www.HugaMonkey.com. I should make an infomercial.
Hey Amy, it's your former V.T. from Oregon, ha, ha! Phillip and I always disappear the minute church gets out, usually because I am so hungry! But on the rare occassion that Phillip has to stay and meet with someone, I get so bored because everyone I know also leaves right after church and I have no one to talk to! I don't even bother trying to strike up a conversation after church with anyone even if I want to because I can see in their eyes and body language how eager they are to get out of there.
I am probably the only one that disagrees, but thats okay b/c we're all different, and I dont have any kids. sunday is the only day I see people that I like to be around, but we don't really have this issue b/c no one ever talks to us. I guess all of you guys are just popular. I thought thats what everyone wanted to be? I must be confused.
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You don't like to hold back, do you? :) Ever since we got the later church time Bob has been much more helpful because he is ready to get home too. But I totally know what you mean.
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