Going Back To Church
Since Tristan was born we have not been back to church. I know that’s horrible but I don’t think he could sit through a service and I’m too nervous to leave him with strangers. Plus Rick is back to work on Sunday’s.
So here’s how it went:
Today I dropped Tristan off at the church nursery for the first time. It’s so tempting to always keep him with us since he’s so easy. We even contemplated taking him to the movies with us this weekend (confession: we DID see the new Twilight movie…with Tristan though). But I decided to bite the bullet and venture off without him for the first time at church. It’s amazing how much you UNDERESTIMATE how long it takes to get yourself and a baby all ready in order to go somewhere. This whole process is definitely something we are learning a lot about as first time parents. So here’s how it went:
- Arrive to church- already late
- Arrive to nursery and are clueless about the “check-in” process
- Holding baby in one arm, filling out paperwork in the other.
- Holding up the line for people to drop their kids off
- Realize baby’s entire outfit is soaked in a poopy-pee mixture as I’m handing him to the lady
- Grab him back from the stranger lady, attempt to change him IN the stroller
- Can’t find the diapers or backup outfit (“let’s just go home…” I say)
- Finally find the diapers and backup outfit. **Note: the backup outfit was put in the diaper bag 2 months ago so you can only imagine how well it fit. Poor T.
- Hand baby back to stranger lady.
- Clean up the whole hot mess
- Make it to church with 18 minutes left of service….victory!
Maybe next week I can get a half hour in.
Chrystal
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