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It’s Sunday and we’ve survived the day. It’s a miracle that we even
get to church at all considering the craziness that ensues every Sunday
morning. My husband is back from his business trip and we are trying
to get back to “normal.” Normal means going to church on Sunday,
including Sunday School. When people see us unload our crew from our
minivan on Sunday morning, we are a frazzeled bunch. I half jokingly
tell people that it’s a three ring circus at our home on Sunday. Today
went something like this:
Saturday @ midnight (officially Sunday) : Mommy lays out everyone’s
clothes to make it easier for Sunday morning. Mommy goes to bed.
6:00 a.m. - Daddy hits the snooze button
6:30 a.m. - Daddy hits the snooze button…again.
7:00 a.m. - Daddy turns the alarm off. (We are now running late…let the craziness now begin….)
7:45 a.m.- Jack & Will run into Mommy & Daddy’s room & proceed to pounce on sleeping parents.
7:50 a.m. - Daddy gets up and realizes that he is to be at church
early because he is helping with the offering and freaks out. Family
must be at church by 9:45 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - Daddy gets Will, Jack & George into the shower for a
“quick soap up and rinse.” Mommy makes up parent’s bed and places
boys’ clothes on top of the comforter.
8:15 a.m. - Daddy hands boys off to Mommy. Daddy gets into shower.
Mommy dries off each boy in assembly line fashion and gets them dressed
accordingly. Will whines that he wants to wear the blue sweater and
not the yellow one. Boys brush teeth.
8:30 a.m. - Will & Jack go downstairs to watch Max & Ruby on
Noggin. George stays in Mommy & Daddy’s room while Daddy gets
dressed in bedroom and Mommy goes into shower. Jack sneeks back
upstairs to change from his church clothes into a Spiderman costume.
8:35 a.m. - George finds sippy cup full of juice in Will’s room and
unscrews the top. George pours juice down the front of his outfit
before running into Daddy. George clings to Daddy’s leg with wet
clothes. Daddy’s pants are now saturated with sticky apple juice.
Daddy & George must change clothes.
8: 40 a.m. - Mommy is putting on makeup, but must stop to help Daddy
find another outfit for George. Mommy finds Jack in closet dressed as
Spiderman…with cowboy boots. Jack doesn’t see what the fuss is all
about and announces that “Jesus loves Spiderman.”
8:45 a.m. - While Daddy changes clothes, Mommy changes George.
Mommy convinces Jack that “Yes, Jesus loves Spiderman, but Spiderman’s
mask is in the wash, so let’s wear something else.” Jack agrees and
changes back into his original outfit. Mommy sends Jack back
downstairs and resumes getting ready.
8:50 a.m. - Mommy and Daddy hear screaming coming from downstairs.
Will comes upstairs with a black eye. Will and Jack were “play
fighting” and things quickly got out of hand. Jack has hit his big
brother in the eye with a juice box. Will’s eye has started to
swell. Mommy must abandon attempt to put on hose to get an ice pack
for Will’s eye. Daddy has put Jack in “time out.”
9:03 a.m. - Jack’s time is up in “time out.” Jack tells Will he is
“sorry.” However, Will’s eye is swelling and it is official…he will go
to church with a “shiner.”
9:07 a.m. - Mommy finally has clothes on, but realizes that there is
no time to “do her hair.” It looks like a ponytail day for Mommy.
Daddy is downstairs getting the diaper bag ready when he announces that
this would be a great day to get doughnuts. Boys all scream with
delight.
9:10 a.m. - Mommy pokes herself in the eye while rushing to put on
mascara. Mommy’s eye will not stop watering. Mommy throws on a pair
of black sling back pumps.
9:11 a.m. - Because Mommy is blind from sticking the mascara wand in
her eye, she can’t see and gets her heel gets caught at the top of the
stairs. Mommy falls as she is descending the stairs, ripping a huge
hole in her hose. Mommy must change her hose…and shoes because her
heel broke.
9:12 a.m. - Mommy yells to Daddy to “Get the kids in the van! Strap ‘em in! I’ll be there in a minute!”
9:13 a.m. - Mommy wonders why the kids couldn’t have just had a freakin’ cereal bar and juice this morning.
9:15 a.m. - Mommy has changed clothes and is running down the stairs…with different shoes in hand.
9:16 a.m. - Mommy is in the van and tells Daddy to “Haul it to the doughnut shop!”
9:20 a.m. - Mommy is ordering doughnuts and is obsessing about whether or not she unplugged the curling iron.
9:22 a.m. - Mommy asks Daddy whether they
