There is nothing like a good church service and some visiting with others in the congregation to perk a girl right up. Granted I did spend the majority of the service in the cry room just off the sanctuary but they pipe in the service and you can see the sanctuary through nice lacey curtains that block enough to breastfeed in privacy without needing a cover up…and I LOVE their gliding rocker.
My being in the cry room left Ken in charge of the twins. They actually made it through most of the service playing in the pew with their toys out of their diaper bag or papers in the pew. When they grew bored of that they made a run for the back of the church with Ken in tow. After the service I actually had compliments on how good they were. Apparently all anyone noticed was their laughing during the service – certainly not something that upset anyone.
The sermon was excellent. There was a line in the Gospel Verse that struck me – For those who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God. (part of John 3:14-21) How true is that? When you do something bad do you want it known? Are you going to bring it out into the light? Yet when you do something good and true there is no worries about someone seeing, you are not afraid of what God will think. It made me think about the times in the past when I have not been proud of my actions vs the times I have. Perfection is unattainable so thank goodness for Easter and the true meaning behind it.
I was looking in Superstore today at the Easter cards. I found an absolutely adorable Precious Moments one for Emanuel’s first Easter but had to cry defeat in finding something with a religious tone to it for the boys. Except for a very small section of cards all the Easter ones were covered in bunnies and eggs or had some sort of secular flavour to the sentiment. Even the envelope for Emanuel’s has decorated Easter eggs all over it. I was rather disapointed, I didn’t want to get the boys a card that was not connected to the TRUE meaning behind Easter. That is not to say that we are totally against the other more commercial side of things, just that we want the primary focus to be on the more religious aspects. Like with Christmas – the birth of the savior and being together as a family over receiving presents.
We also, inbetween church and Superstore, went to the park in town and had the boys try playing in the snow. We bundled them up in their snowsuits and put Emanuel in one of the hooded bags and out we went. Basically KEN played in the snow and Gavin supervised – Zander did try packing a bit on top of Daddy’s pile, but all in all their were not overly impressed. Hopefully even with the weather warming up there will be some snow left next weekend when we will have another chance to get out and try the boys again. I am really hoping that over the summer we can find a bigger place to rent in town with… dare I dream… a YARD ???? Maybe even a FENCE! Hehe At least this move would be alot more relaxed. When we moved into the apartment it was a rush job since the city (who owned the house) was planning on tearing it down to expand the main highway through the city. Ken still grimaces over that – turns out they did NOT add a lane – no they widened the meridian to put TREES in it LOL.
Well, with Superstore having a deal on digital prints – 4×6’s for 12 cents a peice instead of 24, I have a bunch of pictures to place in my albums and I STILL have to finish up labelling the announcements. Hopefully on Monday Ken can get a list of possible services in May that we can chose to hold Emanuel’s Baptism. He still needs to decide where we are having everyone come afterwards since we are looking at quite the squeeze at our own apartment.
I did a search online last night for Nursing Necklaces and finally found an affordable version on eBay that can be shipped up to Canada without paying more than the thing is worth. I am really excited to get one since Emanuel has taken to kneading my breast while he is eating often scratching. This necklace gives him something to look at and play with. I was concidering making one myself but for the price I found it here it is much more realistic to just order one and not have to go to the bother of finding beads and a strong enough thread. She is going to make it to my specifications and even send me pictures before she ships it. YaY.
Wow, I guess I did find something to chat about today – alot of somethings. Time to get myself moving and get some stuff done around here.