Church starts at 1pm on Sunday.
There are currently eight children living at home and two parents; it takes awhile to get everyone ready. So, we sleep in until around 10am, and then slowly make our way around the house. We start making breakfast at around 10:30-11am,meanwhile the most productive people start getting showered, and we all eventually begin getting into our Sunday Best. By that time it is at least 12:00, leaving us with about a half hour to spare until we have to run out the door, get situated in the car, drive to the main road (Knik Goose Bay), just to realize we forgot the diaper bag.
This happens nearly every week.
On this lovely day, we're late. It's almost 10:30 and the only people out of bed are my dad, Ririe, and me. I had the misfortune or delight (you pick), to be texted by a friend around 9:30-10am this morning, waking me up. Instead of showering, which I should have done, I decided to dawdle on the computer. Kind of like I am now...anyway. The rest of the day will go on; we'll go to church, getting there twenty minutes early in order to get the sacrament ready. We'll sit in sacrament, listening to many people's testimonies (today is Fast Sunday, apparently...according to my friend's mom), and intermittently taking children out (screaming or in desperate need of a bathroom break).
By the end of sacrament, it's 2:15pm, and we scramble to make sure that all the children get to their individual classes. When I finally end up in my classroom, it's around 2:20-2:25. Then, we have the lesson. Boring or not, life goes on, we learn something (unless you're not paying attention, like many of the boys in my class), and before you know it it's 3-something (I don't know when that class ends, okay?), and we all head off to our other class; the boys to Priesthood meeting, and the girls to...The Relief Society Room. About 15 minutes in there, maybe less, and we leave to do our own lesson in the High Council Room, until around 4:00-4:15.
Finally, church is done. It's 4:30-4:45pm by the time we are all situated back into the car, and around 5pm by the time we get home. We have four hours until it's time to sleep, and somewhere around two or three hours until the sun sets. We have dinner, watch a movie, and go to bed.
Now, my reason for posting all this. Next year, our ward, Settlers Bay, will meet at 9am instead of 1pm. Guess how drastically this will change things? YES! We'll go to church, and then have a whole day of lazing left to us. We can rest, like we're supposed to. We won't be able to sleep in, but we'll have time for naps when we get home. We won't have wasted, or rather....used up our whole day. Ah, life is good.
~La vie est belle, Bri~
