ExhausTed.

• The divine crawling m woke up at 4:55 with a nurse-nurse-nurse and a “ba-ba-ba!” Gah!! She also woke up twice last night, requiring minimal management (R’s theory is that she’s dreaming), but still! Gah!!!!!
  
  
• VBS is going fairly well, although I collected my kids yesterday from their class, then the nursery, and came back to my office to collect my things, during which time C got into my vial of anointing oil and miss m had a poop up the back with no change of clothes handy. Then I managed to knock over my sand labyrinth, which spilled all over the floor.
  
  
• The drama group is doing OK, although there are too many kids and not a space to practice in. So we’ve got 11 kids crammed in my office. Way too many hormones in one space. Also, some of them seem to be there solely because their mother is there teaching and/or they have nothing better to do with their time. I’m all for hanging out and the ministry of presence and all that, but the drama isn’t going to rehearse itself.
  
  
• What possesses a person to ignore the “Do Not Disturb—feeding the baby” sign on the door and try the locked knob anyway? And then proceed to jiggle the locked knob repeatedly for several seconds?
  
  
• I did the storytelling today, on the feeding of the 5,000. I thought it went pretty well. I held their attention for the most part, although someone in C’s class started to talk a little and C turned to them and said, “Shh, my mommy’s talking.”
  
  
• Speaking of C, she is having a great time. There are two classes of three-year-olds, and everyone from her preschool class is in the other class. Why is she not with them? Mrs. L specifically requested C in her class. Ah, the perils of being a preacher’s kid.
  
  
• The good thing about C is that she doesn’t seem the least bit distressed about this. Although, do the girls in that class seem to be a kind of clique, and do they look right through her when she is around, or is it my imagination? Please God not yet.
  
  
• Swimming lessons went well too. She is by far the youngest in the class—so much for worrying that she would be behind not having taken lessons before. (Water babies? Who has time and energy?) There are some kids who clearly don’t belong there though—one girl can already swim underwater. That’s annoying. Move up to the next level! But C had a great time and she can now blow bubbles underwater!