Sundays are very very important to me. I seriously don't know what I would do without them. Being LDS, we observe the commandment to keep the Sabbath Day holy. It's a day of worship, a day of rest, a day of family. For me not a day of shopping, doing yard work, and working. I love Sundays! But since I've been called to work with the children at church, it's been very tricky for us. Yes, I've been doing it since 2 weeks before Uriah was born. But it was so much easier when he was non-mobile! My poor husband has such a messed up sleep schedule from working nights 7 months out of the year, that it's almost impossible for him to get up before 8am. He is getting better, but once he gets used to getting up early, he'll go back to nights. Right now, I feel like I'm barely making it. I feel like Heavenly Father is literally carrying me around. Uriah still does not sleep through the night. He wakes up about 3 times a night and I am exhausted! None of our kids ever slept through the night until they were about 18 months... and even then, they rarely did. Our Sunday schedule goes a little like this. If we're lucky to be home on a Saturday evening, I get the kids bathed and their clothes out. This rarely happens though since we do try to take advantage of our only day of the week to "get things done" as a family. So if I don't bathe kids Saturday night, I get up at 4:30am to take a shower Sunday morning. I want to make sure there's enough hot water for everyone. I get ready, search for the kids' clothes, lay them out... work on my Primary stuff(the church kids organization) because i'm a huge procrastinator, and then at about 6:30am, kids start waking up and showering. When I have my meeting before church, which happens twice a month, I have to leave here at 7:10am because it takes 20 mins to get to the church. But thankfully the sisters I work with are now going to the other meeting, so I only have to go to 1 a month. While I'm at my meeting, I hope and pray Jason is able to get up to get the younger kids ready for church and get there in time. I of course always tote Uriah around with me. I can't leave him home with Jason sleeping and expect the kids to watch him. He is seriously an adventurous baby! So he comes with me to my meeting. At the meeting, we are crammed into our Bishop's office and Uriah has a hay day in there. He loves getting into everything and everyone loves watching him. I'll be honest, I don't like having him in there. Wrestling with him, keeping him out of the drawers, keeping him out of everyone's bags. And if you just happen to have a tablet or something, he'll be right there to take it out of your hands to play with it. During the meeting I don't have papers or pencils out, because when I do, he insists on taking the pencil and writing on the paper. So what's the point? So after our hour long meeting, I rush to get Uriah dressed, since he's in his pj's during the meeting. And I get my makeup on and then set up the 7 rows of 12 chairs per row. I try to keep Uriah from climbing on the podium, climbing on top of the piano, and scaling the chalk board, which he has stood on the chalk tray several times already. By the time 9am comes around, I'm exhausted, I'm tired, and I just want to go home and go to sleep. But once I'm able to take the sacrament, I always feel better and have some more energy! It's amazing what renewing your promises that you've made with God can do to a tired person! When I don't have a meeting, I still get up early enough to have a hot uninterrupted shower. I get everyone ready and then try to get Jason up by 8am. He just can't do it and usually rolls out of bed at 8:10am... and then we try to leave around 8:20am to get to church to help set up the Primary Room and just to not feel rushed to take the Sacrament. The women I work with in Primary are seriously amazing! And it wouldn't function without them. The teachers are amazing too! By the time we've wrestled with the kids all through Sacrament, and gotten through 2 hours of juggling Uriah with Primary responsibilities, I am done and tired. We usually leave the church at around 12:20pm and get home and make lunch. And after lunch, I just sit here. I rest, I nap, I let the kids play like crazy with each other... even though they're destroying the house while doing so. But I don't care... I'm able to renew my body and my spirit and prepare myself for the week ahead. It might sound like I am complaining, and I am. I am only complaining about the fact that I'm so tired all the time and it is very frustrating to me. But Sundays really do save me. Being able to take the Sacrament, serve with the wonderful kids, and get an afternoon to just be chill and read my scriptures and hang out with the kids.... I couldn't survive without it! As a kid, I didn't really understand why it was so important to have a day of rest, but oh boy.... now I do!
