3/28/09 Sunday

Today was a busy day for us. We had church this morning, Aly was supposed to have softball practice, and then Ryan and I had our financial peace class this afternoon.

The kids were still exhausted from their zoo trip yesterday so getting everyone up and ready to go this morning was a little difficult. It was a typical fight with Aly over what she was going to wear to church. The usual...everything is dirty or doesn't fit, even though the dirty clothes hamper is empty-all her laundry was clean and put away, and we'd already pulled out clothes that didn't fit a month ago. So this was NOT an argument!! We had tears over her shoes..."they don't fit" and tears over the dress..."too short." And all this before 7:30am, and I hadn't even started getting the other two kids ready yet!!

Finally, at 8am we were out the door. How??? God intervened! He had to, I have no idea how we were all ready by 8am if it wasn't by one of God's miracles. LOL He must have really thought that our family needed to get to church on time!!

Church went well. Aly sang with the children's choir, and looked beautiful in the dress that was "too short." Addy had fun playing with her Daddy in the pew. She has discovered that she really likes stickers. She stuck them all over Daddy's face. It's amazing what he will let her do. Daddy's girl. Anyway, it worked, it kept her occupied for most of the service without any mishaps. Of course, she had to go to the back with Daddy during the sermon...an hour during morning naptime is just too much for her right now. It's not very often that she can make it through the whole service in the pew with us. Daddy usually ends up in the cry room with her. (I think he kinda likes it that way!) Max was his usual happy go lucky self. He really is an easy baby.

We got home from church and had to leave right away for our class. Aly didn't end up going to practice because of the rain. My mom and sister stayed and kept the kids for us.

This class actually isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We've gotten alot of great information from it, and have even already seen a huge difference in our marriage. I highly recommend it to all married couples or anyone thinking about getting married. It is a Christian based program that helps you gain financial peace by giving you the tools to get out of and stay out of debt and to set up a family budget. It's great. If you are interested in more info...let me know.

After class we came home and spent time with the kids. The dog, Harley, was in rare form. He was jumping and biting everything and everyone. The girls were screaming and running through the house like crazy people. Max was sitting in his jumperoo and the dog was pulling his socks off of his feet. He didn't chew on them...just took them off and hid them. Max just smiled and kept letting him do it. He didn't cry or kick...Nothing. Just sat there playing. After an hour of the screaming and chaos, I had enough...bedtime came a little early. Sometimes Mommy needs a timeout, so they went to bed a half hour early.

I guess it could have been worse...overall, not a good or bad day...just another blah day. Kinda glad I don't have anything exciting to write about today. Too tired for exciting. LOL