Easter Sunday drama with the boy

It's Easter Sunday and I'm sitting with my kids in children's church

 

Last Sunday when we dropped the kids at children's church, Connor went into a bit of a frothy for the first time in over a year.

 

A frothy is a very loud tantrum :)

 

We said we'll come back later and did the hard thing and just left.

 

They were fine when we returned so we thought nothing of it.

 

Well, it's a long story but I can't watch the crucifixion in any shape or form. I can't even read it in my Bible - I will have sleepless nights, I have such a tender heart LOL

 

So we decided that D would take the kids with him, drop them at children's church and then go see our Easter play alone.

 

He phoned me about 10 minutes before the play was to start to say that Connor is again freaking out.

 

He was wailing and saying he didn't like church and wants to come home to Mummy. This is verrrrry unusual so D phoned me.

 

We decided we didn't want to create a bad vibe about church (plus D was alone with TWO) so he brought them home via the horribleness that is the Greenstone Spur (gosh, I hate the service there with a PASSION).

 

Also, fortunately there were 6 sessions of the play so D could catch it again.

 

Today I told him I'd come with them and then blog, etc. while they were all in church.

 

I told D to go straight into church as I didn't want him to miss any of the goodness. This is his thing, you see.

 

Well, I tried to drop the two off again and Connor again had a frothy of NOTE!

 

After about 20 minutes of trying to walk with a monkey hanging on my legs (and it was not a tantrum; he genuinely was upset), I told the ladies I'm taking them with me.

 

By the way, would you be embarrassed by all of this craziness? Thank God I'm wired with a rhino skin so I really couldn't care but I know at least one friend who would be mortified :)

 

My intention was to get something for them to eat in the food court. Yes, we have a food court at our church.

 

On the way out a worker suggested I try the class up and stay there with them. At this point I was willing to try anything. So in we went and he calmed down.

 

We went to try go on the slides outside - Kendra was fine, Connor not - so then we went inside to sit and watch a DVD.

 

At exactly an hour after church started, Connor told me I could leave them there and go to church but he did not want to go back to their actual class. Gosh, I wasn't going to argue so off I went.

 

I feel like an investigator because we now know it's not the whole children's church but something happened at THAT class.

 

What do you think it could be? Have you ever experienced anything like this?

 

Isn't it exhausting parenting kids???

 

We've decided to do a little Easter Egg hunt for them with the measly 4 marshmallow eggs I have (this Easter I exercised a remarkable amount of restraint and only bought two strips of 4 - I usually get the box of 48 :)) and some assorted toys that came with jelly beans - those are the ones I polished off a few weeks ago.

 

And then we will give them the rest of their Easter baskets. I will take pics and blog them tomorrow :)

 

How's your Easter been?

 

Did you have any special plans?

 

(we have none! I may just cook some pasta and that will be special since we normally have sandwiches for lunch)