Church Sundays!

One thing that I really wanted to do while I was on maternity leave this time was take the kids to church as often as possible.  This is by far the number 1 thing I miss the most about working weekends.   There are other things that bum me out like not getting to see my husband during the basketball season and not getting to go to family functions.  I miss church the most.  It’s not being in the church or the Mass itself, even.  It’s the extreme family bonding that I feel when we are all there together.  Man, is it a lot of work though.  Boys are just not made to sit still, and since I am surrounded by boys, there is not a lot of sitting still going on.  I come away from church with such a fulfilled feeling, and this weird feeling of confidence because ‘we did it!’ We survived Mass with 3 little boys!  I think that more than what it does for me, though, we are sending a more important message to the boys that we have so much to be thankful for.  I could very easily take them to the sunday nursery with the lady that watches the kids during Mass but that would not be a challenge   and I would feel very empty not having our complete family wriggling around in the pew.  This is what made me happy today!