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Children do not respond to American Sign Language or any other CIVIL form of communication when said communication is attempted by an adult.

While I'm Waiting...

Be forwarned this is a frustrated/complaining post. If you don't want to read it I won't be offended!

Some of you may have noticed. Those of you that attend church with us anyways... that Jer and I are struggling to come on a consistant basis.

We may make excuses when asked directly why we weren't there ...

Caring friend:"Why weren't you at church last week?"

Myself: "Well, you see, it was the last time my kids
would get to see my parents for a couple of weeks due to them going to China and
there was no other time to go to see them except during church. And I know my kids would have been really mad if they didn't see them before
they left on their trip."

While this is technically true, I think that had we truly wanted to go to church, we would have been there.

Don't get me wrong... I believe all that is being taught. In fact, I team teach the five year olds.

The thing is, I have this almost entirely selfish attitude I'm struggling with. It has to do with the fact that that:
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G tends to have issues going to his own class when I sit right behind him in the opening excersises and he spends almost the whole time looking at me or trying to get my attention.
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That Missy My still has potty accidents as far as #2 goes (She has #1 down pat) and she tends to have these accidents in nursery and for the life of me I have a hard time putting her in Pull-Ups during this time because I feel like that would be enabling her to continue to resist actually using the potty.
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It also has to do with the fact that Li is still breastfeeding and if I can get him to nurse during the first meeting he might fall asleep for Jer, but if not then Jer is stuck with a crying baby out in the foyer that he can't do much for (Li still won't take a sippy I don't know what I'm going to do with him), but even if Jer can get him to sleep, Jer can't move once Li is asleep or he wakes up. This does away with moving between meetings. So Jer ends up missing ALL of his meetings except Sacrament and even in that meeting both he and I are constantly paying attention to the kidlets.

So, while I believe church is a good thing, especially for my kids, if it were only about me and not about my kids learning about Christ, morals, values, a good way to live life, and all that fun stuff from someone other than mom and dad... to be honest, I probably wouldn't go at all for a while.
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Give me strength!