What can you be sure of on Sunday morning, during church prep?
- A shoe (or two) will go missing just as the family prepares to pile into the van.
- Mommy--forgetting that it's better to dress the troops AFTER BREAKFAST--will have a hissy over the spill that ruins a carefully-chosen kid outfit.
- A certain cereal, desired by the resident picky eater, will be all gone.
- The eight year old will suddenly outgrow all acceptable church outfits.
- Two heads of hair will not stop sticking straight up, despite three applications of water. Where's the old-fashioned goop when you need it?
- The baby will sleep lousy the night before, making Mommy feel cranky--not at all spiritual.
- Mommy and Daddy will throw irritated words at one another, for no good reason.
- Mommy will say how next week, all clothes need to be laid out the night before.
Fast forward one week: Mommy feels too busy to lay out clothes on Saturday night. Every day has enough trouble of its own.
"I'll just get up earlier and do it in the morning", she assures herself. But, remember, the baby always sleeps lousy on Saturday night?
Oh, what a vicious, enemy-induced cycle!
2 comments:
LOL Your words made me remember how it used to be for us getting ready with a child at home. Especially those words to each other! Oh Satan loved us when we did that!!
But it always worked out and I'm happy we persevered.
While I have fewer children, this cycle sounds oddly familiar...
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