Going to Church Alone

First, I have to start by saying how proud I am of Chet. He is an amazing father and husband. But even more than that, he is such a hard worker. We have been trying to conserve our few days of vacation left when he hears that Minot ND is in serious need of able men to help out with all the flooding problems. He didn't even hesitate to use 2 days vacation to go. We know that we are beyond blessed, and we know that it could all be gone tomorrow. So...he is in Minot today, leaving me all five boys to take to church alone. I was probably a little over confident, but I also knew this would be the hardest hour that he was gone. OH.MY.GOODNESS. Hard is not a strong enough word. If I were a cussing women, here is where there would be more than one naughty word to describe Sacrament Meeting today. Luckily someone behind me took Colby, but then they wanted a burp rag, a toy, anything to entertain him, a blanket...holy crap just give him back!( I was just glad all five were on the bench still!) Haha, I just wasn't prepared to fly solo. Chet and I always tag team this, so I was short a few supplies. We were there on time (8:58 am thank-you), two of the five had ties on, all five got breakfast (barely) and all five had their hair done! I don't see crap on their face anymore, so who knows if their face was clean! We invented new games. Flying Book of Mormons, hit and run Book of Mormon, Build yourself a head fort with hymn books, write each other hate notes on the announcements and several others that I have surely blocked out already!(Each one got to be played for about 1 second ea, followed by the look of death from me!) At one point I was short one boy, so before I can stop them, two go looking for him. Crazy! Pure Crazy! Afterwards I had alot of people telling me how cute my family is and how wonderful they are. I told one that she needed glasses, and the couple sitting behind me says, "You weren't sitting behind them!" I just smiled and thanked them for all their help! Oh how I love that my husband comes and gets to sit with me every week! Someday we will look back and miss this...NOT!!! Everyone keeps telling us that, but I think they are delusional. Needless to say, we played how do we sit in Sacrament Meeting when we got home, BEFORE they could eat lunch, pure torture for boys!!! Sit and fold your arms and face forward with your feet down for 30 min straight, or time starts over. We'll see how next week goes...with Chet thank goodness!