Peace and Quiet
Sep 23rd, 2007 by Bethany
Right now both kids and my husband are sleeping and I have a rare moment of peace and quiet. It's been a long week and I confess I'm pretty worn out and grateful for the Sabbath.
This morning was pretty hectic with getting ready for church. "Getting ready for church" means finding everyone's clothes, getting everyone showered or bathed, getting everyone into their clothes, packing the diaper bag, finish preparing lessons, gathering supplies for lessons, making breakfast, feeding everyone breakfast, and getting everyone in the car. The last two weeks we've been trying to get to church at around 9am even though church doesn't start until 10am because I have to get the Primary room set up (put the chairs out in rows, get out the microphone, make sure there's nothing on the floor, unlock supply cabinets, etc.) Last week both Colin and I were teaching, so it was pretty crazy, but this week I was teaching two lessons and the kids were grumpy, so this week was crazy too. Oh, and Colin ended up subbing for a class in Primary because a teacher didn't show up, so it turned out we had to do three lessons between the two of us. Yikes!
I may have mentioned that right now our Primary is seriously understaffed. In addition to having very few teachers, we have no secretary (so I'm doing that job) or chorister, and my amazing first counselor is sick with pneumonia and was hospitalized the last two weeks. This means that this week I did Sharing Time, Singing Time, and did a singing time with the nursery (18 months to 3 years old) myself. My wonderful second counselor conducted and made assignments for next week and got copies of the class roles from the ward clerk and tons of other things (and next week she's doing Sharing Time!). It makes me tired just thinking about it. I'm extremely grateful for the people who substituted today and the people who helped watch Maggie while Colin and I were teaching because my job would have been virtually impossible without them.
After Primary I was planning to go to ward choir, but Colin and I were both exhausted, to say nothing of Maggie and Degen. Both of them needed a diaper change and both were badly in need of a nap. All of us were hungry. It was so nice to come home and know that there were things worth eating in the house and that the sheets on the bed were clean because I'd changed them the day before.
I hear Maggie waking up…