The other two services are Sunday mornings. There's the early bird service where usually you see families with young children and senior saints. Then there is the late morning service where people who need to practice the day of rest by sleeping in and then having slow, restful, noon-rushed Sabboth mornings. This is, by far, the most popular service.
We are the family that attends the later... Except for the non-rushed mornings because we typically make it to church by the skin of our teeth.
Many of my friends with young children, however, attend first service and love it. They find that they're able to get fed spiritually and then be able to make it home for naps and then spend the rest of the Sabboth at home as they feel led. and we typically are able to say hi and visit in passing as they're leaving and we're arriving. And it's worked out fine for our family for several years now until now.
Janni has basically never needed naps. She does all get sleeping at night and if by chance she falls sleep during the day, she makes you pay for it by staying up past 10 that night. It actually had made me cry literal tears many a night. It's been one of the few incredibly difficult parts of parenting her.
But Tru oh, this boy knows how to nap. Two, three, sometimes even four hour naps and it's incredible! But if he doesn't get his nap on time, he falls apart and is off the rest of the day. The whole situation is entirely stressful.
The problem with our church service is that it starts right after Tru's first nap of he day and he's so excited to be at church that he won't nap while we're there... And then he falls apart and the rest of the day if so stressful. Many years shed. Ugh.
Last week, Zack was on the worship team and left before we needed to be there. As I waited for our service time to start, it dawned on me that I could start attending the first service
I rushed around like a maniac getting ready, got Janni ready, took Tru in his sleeper pajamas (the nerve!!), and made by the soon of our teeth (go figure)... But we made it. And then we got Tru home for nap and there rest of the day was peaceful.
This week we got up early, got ourselves ready, managed to get to church barely on time, sat through
.... But don't, Tru didn't get to go to church in his pajamas this week.
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