The Wright Balance: 5/12/13 1st Mother's Day

Bryan said he wants to go to both churches today, so he hopped out of bed as soon as I told him it was 40 minutes until we needed to leave. He got himself all ready and was able to take Josiah when he was done eating, so that I could get ready. We made it mostly on time to early service at Southwest Bible.

The sermon was from Luke 10 about Mary sitting at Jesus's feet while Martha was distracted serving. Martha was so anxious about her tasks serving those at their house that she was upset that Mary was not helping her, and she was not even listening to what Jesus was teaching. This verse on the left is Psalm 94:19. It is a verse I want to memorize. I have a hard time not being distracted by things that give me anxiety and having this verse to quote to myself will help keep my mind in check. It was very fitting to be in this section on Mother's Day. It was purely coincidental, but fitting. It was the closest to a holiday sermon I have ever heard at Southwest and it was just because the next text in the series from Luke was fitting. ;)

Josiah slept in the pew most of the sermon. He fussed a little, but was able to be consoled without a bottle, and we didn't have to cary him out at all. I couldn't remember if BNC started service at 10:30 or 10:45, so we left early and headed there. I was able to feed Josiah in the "mother's room" before service started. It was very nicely arranged with a changing table, 3 gliders, a few toys, a bouncer, and a bumpo to keep babies entertained. It was dimly lit with mirrored windows into the sanctuary and sound so women don't have to miss the service to nurse. Once again Josiah slept though the sermon and only fussed a little during worship (He doesn't like clapping. It startles him.) The sermon was about Jesus's ascension being important to our faith. It was very Biblically sound, we were impressed and pleased.

For Mother's Day Twi and Jason came up and we took Mom and Dad and Bob and Edwina to Thai Bloom for lunch. It was very nice. We were glad we had made reservations (Twi's idea, but she made me do it.). We were in a room where a huge, and somewhat loud, extended family (maybe 12 adults and 18 children) were also seated. The wait staff handled it really well, and all the noise the large group made prevented me from being concerned about Josiah's occasional fussiness bothering anyone.

Holding the mum that I was given at BNC for Mother's Day.

After lunch we went to my parent's house for a game of crazy croquet. I don't think we'll ever play croquet normally. It's too fun to set it up like a mini golf course, and my parent's back yard holds endless obstacles. Bob didn't want to play, but he walked around with us and enjoyed the humor of it all. He only went inside once when it was raining pretty steadily. Mom had lawn chairs out under a big umbrella in the center of the yard, and we had our camp chairs and umbrellas out everywhere for comfort.

Jason broke the handle to a flimsy mallet right when he had his ball under the trampoline, so mom got him an extension handle.

Josiah wants to play!

Josiah hung out either in the Beco carrier with me or Bryan, or he laid under the big umbrella with all the chairs. We just had to make sure that while he was laying there someone stayed within his eye sight or he would cry. He didn't want to be left alone. He enjoyed looking around, whether laying there or in the carrier. Eventually he fell asleep, and Bryan used his hat to keep him dry. He fell asleep as soon as the hat was put on him, so I suspect the rain drops were keeping him awake.

Josiah sure had his share of fun. He loved being tossed up and down and all the people coming to talk to him trying to make him laugh. Mission get-Josiah-to-laugh-before-Grammy-leaves has not been successful yet, but it keeps us busy trying, and we sure get a lot of smiles!

Daredevil baby loves to be up high in the air or tossed. Bryan was using him like an umbrella for a few seconds, maybe not intentionally, but it's what it looked like.