I thought not.
You see sometimes I am a slacker mom. I know shocker. And it seems that nearly every week I have a little panic attack during sacrament meeting that my kid was supposed to prepare a 1 1/2 minute talk for primary. And now that the kids have to come up with their own scripture too, I get that little panic feeling twice as often.
One day Savanna had a talk. We forgot, BUT remembered at the last moment before leaving for church. We wrote it out at home. She lost her paper during sacrament meeting???? (HOW?) I forgot to bring the promised back up paper. We winged it.
THIS TIME I REMEMBERED @CHURCH. Savanna had the scripture. I had a vague recollection of what the subject should be and I scrambled to find one as I hurried her off to primary. She read it twice, did great and I promised I'd bring my Quad for her to read from. Only problem? Savanna was not sitting nicely up on at the front. Well really no one was sitting NICELY. They were kind of sprawled all over each other. What could that mean? It's was Ethan's class turn.
No problem right? I'll just have Ethan read the scripture. But he can't read, so I'll have to whisper to him. He'll mumble it out we'll be done and all will move on.
Problem? Ethan doesn't mumble. He's very good an enunciating his words and adding emphasis when needed.
The scripture had the word 'Yea' in it. And Ethan said it JUST like he should, with real feeling.
And I bust up laughing. Not the chortle in your mouth kind, but the full out I can't stop this for Mount Vesuvius kind. And the harder you try to stop volcanic laughter the more it spills and spills and spills over.
I am SOOOOOOO sorry to our primary presidency. I will never grace Primary again....If I can help it. You are welcome.
And I'm not a bit sorry that I happened to miss the time change for Savanna's scripture this week.
6 comments:
You had me volcanic laughing at this:
"And I bust up laughing. Not the chortle in your mouth kind, but the full out I can't stop this for Mount Vesuvius kind. And the harder you try to stop volcanic laughter the more it spills and spills and spills over."
Made me smile.
Wish I could have been there. I would have been laughing with you. My brother always says "YEA!" during their scripture reading.
Reminds me of a story I sent in to "Sunshine for the Latter-Day Saint Soul" (I think that's the one) that actually made it in! My family was reading the Book of Mormon when I was younger. My sister was maybe 4 or 5 at the time. We were going along in 1 Nephi 16, and suddenly my sister asked, "Why were they happy when Ishmael died?" We were all baffled till we went back and read 1 Nephi 16:35. "Our father is dead; yea..."
I laughed out loud reading this. I probably would have laughed out loud if I had been in your shoes or if I had been a teacher there. Still giggling about it :)
That's funny Marni. It reminded me a little of the Herdmans in the Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Marni: Funny story. Thanks for the chuckle.
This is so funny Kat. It got me giggling too just thinking about your volcanic laughter. Marni's story made me giggle too. I am sure I am going to over emphasize "yea" the next time I read that out loud with the family while reading the Scriptures. I just won't be able to help myself.
It reminded me when Kam had to give a talk a few years ago, and he started the volcanic laughter right as he said his first word. He got the whole primary laughing. Dave had to try and finish Kam's talk, because Kam had completely lost it in a fit of giggles. (This happened before I started blogging or else I would have done a big ol' blog post about it.)
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