Evan’s Goes to church and storm preparations

Yesterday we finally took Evan to church.  It was his first church visit since his baptism.

I was at the baptism too, you just can’t see me.  I am standing directly behind Ivan, you can kind of see my leg between Ivan’s legs.  I’m not sure why I was hiding.

Anyway, we hadn’t brought Evan to church because we were scared he’d have a melt-down during a moment of silence.  Plus, Ivan had soccer most Sunday mornings.  And honestly, getting up and organized and out the door for 9am mass just seemed impossible.

However, yesterday we were meeting my nun friend for church.  We hadn’t seen her since Easter when we told her I was pregnant.  I’m not sure why.  I try to get together with her more often than every six months but time had just eluded us.  Plus, since she can’t drive and lives about 40 minutes away it can be hard. 

We overcame the obstacles though.  We decided to pick her up and head to her favorite church.  Unfortunately for us, church starts at 8:45am.  And remember, we are 40 minutes away and have to pick her up.  We were actually out the door at 8am – and I had showered and pumped!  And yes, you did the math right, we were late for church.

Oh well.

Evan did quite well and only had a crying fit once.  I went outside and when he fell asleep we ventured back in.  Not too bad actually.  And after church we went to Panera and he did well there too.  We have only made it to a restaurant once before, so I was nervous about this too.  It’s not that I don’t think I can calm him down, because he’s not too difficult to calm down, it’s that I’ll spend the entire time focusing on him and not really have time to socialize.  However, we did well and had a good time.  My nun friend was so happy she got to meet him!

After church we headed home to prepare for Hurricane Sandy.  She’s suppose to be a doozer and I’m REALLY hoping we don’t lose power.  Just in case we do though, I finished ALL the laundry.  Yup, Ivan was afraid we’d run out of clean clothes or something.  Not quite sure why doing laundry was so imperative, but I got it all done.  Towels, baby clothes, darks, lights.  Just didn’t get the sheets done.  And I discovered something worse than doing my laundry.  Doing the baby’s laundry.  It’s so tiny and has so many parts.  And Ivan insists on filling our bathtub with water and every thermos too.  Just in case the city water treatment plant loses power or the pump loses power – we’ll still be able to flush our toilet and have some drinking water.

I also made some chili – a big pot.  Not sure why because if we don’t have power the chili will go bad.  However I felt like if it was cold outside a big bowl of chili would taste great.

Please let out power stay on!