solo sunday

we went from a house of 10 to just me and the kids today.  whew!  daddy left around 6am for a business trip and papa and nana headed out around 8am before the kids and i left for church.  today was "family sunday" and there is only childcare for children 3 and under.  part of this is an effort to integrate all of the different ages and part is to give the childcare (middle and high school too) workers a week off.  unfortunately, matt and i teach 2s and 3s so we still have to teach our class and we have to bring madelyn and mason in too because there is no where else for them to go.  and today i didn't have matt.

it was a difficult week logistically, but it wasn't as stressful as i was anticipating.  i did have two youth helpers and a smaller than normal class so it worked out well.  after each service they had a cookie reception for everyone.  it worked out great for madelyn and mason because they got to have cookies after both services!  (we attend the first and teach the second.)

maddux was pretty bummed when madelyn told him that she and mason had gotten cookies and was very happy to learn that he would get one too.  i think manning ended up with three cookies by helping himself once while i was visiting with the kids director.  oh well.  there is nothing like overtired, sugared up kids on your own, right?

the kids were actually pretty great this morning and i had a fun day of christmas preparations planned for us while i got us settled back into the house.  it is just a little weird to go from six adults to just me.  not that i am too worried.  love.