Family Home Evening went kind of like this today:
* Gather everyone into the scripture room.
* Fighting begins over who gets to sit where.
* Opening song.
* Opening prayer.
* Everyone plays a piano piece starting with Annalise who
plays and sings a song called The Birthday song. Adorable.
* most other songs consist of a few grumpy pounds on the piano
* Fighting over who sits where continues.
* Start discussing family business.
* Complaining begins about how unfair life is at our home.
* Continue business.
* Discover Annalise needs to be changed.
* Sit on the floor to start changing process as certain boy
gives his opinion of how things should
happen around the house.
* Look up and realize that there is projectile vomit coming
toward us from Bryce as screaming begins.
* Grab big brothers shirt that he took off minutes earlier
to catch the puke. (Sorry Spence)
* run to Bryce while daughter freaks out because she has
puke on her shirt and arm.
* Send one boy out to get towels, one boy to get the suction
machine, and one to get the wedge.
* Suction Bryce. Pray
that the vomiting stops soon and that he does not aspirate it.
* Dad, Bryce, Annalise take shower and/or bath for the
second time.
* Switch the peed on sheets from the night before (now
clean) from washer to dryer.
* Clean chair, floor, towels, and clothes that were in puke’s
path.
* Start another load of laundry filled with items used for
cleaning and soiled clothing.
* Clean suction machine.
* Get Bryce situated again with towels under and over him
and suction machine close by.
* Gather everyone around again.
* Complaining begins about being hungry. (We had lunch right before we began the first
time)
* Start lesson.
* Annalise bursts into tears while signing that she is
hungry.
* Start lesson again.
Fussing/complaining continues.
* End 60 second lesson.
*Sing (some sing, some cry, some sit while looking grumpy)
* Pray
* send everyone out to find something to have as a treat
I sure hope we get points for trying!
Ah…now on with the rest of our day of rest!
2 comments:
I seem to recall a saying that goes like this. Family Home evening the weekly fought that begins and ends with prayer. ..
we had a similar (I use that loosely) occurrence that started with me screaming that I would not let them MAKE me be disobedient to the prophet so we WERE having it and I didn't care if they weren't behaving I was doing it and that was that!! Yah, not our most spiritual event.
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