Sundays are both quiet and eventful at our house. We usually make it to church by 8:30. It works well to lay out the clothes the night before. Otherwise Sunday mornings are STRESSFUL. Most Sundays Megan cries in the nursery, I usually have to stay with her either during the service or Sunday school. Now this Sunday I actually had to stay with her during both services. I always drop her off for the 8:30 service and leave despite all the crying. If she cries loudly and for a long time I can hear her in the service. Yesterday was one of those Sundays so I stayed with her.
During Sunday school she cried again and no one could console her. So someone came to get me, which was fine. I figured we could just play in the nursery and talk to people. But Megan would not even stop crying for me, so we just went to the car. She still cried. When Al and the boys got in the car, she cried. It was a loud car ride home. The boys made lots of noise to drown out her crying. I told Al we should just turn the radio up. When we got home Megan had settled down to quiet sobs. I put her in the bed and she went right to sleep for 3 hours.
Will also had separation anxiety terribly. I figure if he can get over it so can she. At least we know Megan loves us. I took the picture of her yesterday after her nap. She was much happier here at 4:00 than she was at 11:00.
My parents tell me that I used to scream my head off in the church nursery. It was one of the reasons they quit going to church! Don't give up! As you know, this too shall pass!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. I told Al maybe we should rotate sundays. We used to do this with Will. Really I will not do this. It does not fix things at all. Eventually she will decide it is fun to play with her friends and she will not miss us a bit. It goes by fast.
ReplyDeleteHang in there! As Pam said, this too shall pass.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to let them cry, but you are right, she know you love her.
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