living at church

between last night and today i feel like the church building has been my home away from home.

last night was our ward christmas party.  the young women were put in charge of decorations so even though the party was from 5:30 to 7:30, i was there from 4:00 til 8:30 or so.

then this morning was like many others.  christopher had bishopric meeting from 6 to 7:30 so when he got home, i went to ward council.  and it went more than 30 minutes late today so i was there from 7:45 (it starts at 7:30 but i'm always late because i have to wait for christopher to get home before i can leave) to 9:20 before heading home to grab breakfast and get abigail up and fed and dressed and then it's back to church for 10:20 sacrament meeting.  and then we had tithing settlement afterwards and of course they were running behind so we didn't leave until 2:20 and then  my christopher had to stick around to help out with tithing settlement so i took baby girl home.  and she was really on one when we got home so it took forever to get her fed and down for nap.  and then i had about 15 minutes to sit down and check email and whatever before my christopher got home at 4:00 and it was time for me to go back to the church for a THIRD time for ward choir.  but because we share our building with three other wards, we had to wait to use the chapel and didn't even get started til after 4:30 and then we went over every single song and i didn't get home til 6:20 and all i wanted to do was crawl in bed.  who else made four round trips to church in a 24 hour period?  i couldn't help but think to myself how nice it would be if they could make faster progress on our new church building being built IN our neighborhood.  i'm super excited for that.  too bad it's probably more than a year away...

all that being said though, this sunday was a very good one.  one of those sundays where all three hours of church are awesome and even though i was nodding off during sunday school (soooo tired lately), i felt like my mind was clear and i was able to really pay attention and learn about what the teacher was teaching!  and the christmas songs we're singing in choir are beautiful.  and abigail and christopher and i had a great time tonight switching and setting up rooms upstairs.  it was productive family togetherness at its finest.

what a happy sunday indeed!