Monday Perris got home from work and I gave him the look of "It's been one of those days." Then I actually verbalized that and told him Wade had some extra special behavior…particularly because he didn't nap well. Story of our life, though.
We continue our night and after bath time and before bed, squeezed in a little thing we call "family home evening". Enter song, lesson, & prayer as a family. We had had plans to visit a cool thrift store, but when the following was happening at dinner time, I had to cancel:
Drools of broccoli, tears, and snot on top of the yells and cries maxed out my Motherhood tolerance cup for the day. You'll be so kind to understand…
So I wait on the bed with squeaky clean, pajama-ed boys and Perris runs to the computer and I hear something printing. He runs back with this picture and proceeds to start his lesson.
I think, "Ok, cool. Teaching about Jesus Christ calming the stormy waters…" and started humming the hymn "Master the Tempest is Raging" in my mind, thinking how the tempest was kinda raging at dinnertime.
Perris begins by looking at Wade and saying, "Wade, do you know who that is?"
[Wade with a blank look.]
"It's Jesus." says P
[Wade with a look of recognition.]
"And what is this a picture of?" asks P
[Another blank look from Wade.]
"Jesus is sleeping." [Pause]
[Wade looks up at him]
"Jesus was taking a nap because naps are so important. So we all need to take naps and get the rest we need, ok Wade?"
Perris says "Amen" and we're done. I really had no idea where he was going to go with that lesson, but I can say I liked it. And it really made me giggle.
You'll probably want to teach your kids this one, too. Right? ;)
Let's end well. Here are the children in happier states:
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Adorable.