A Story

We made it to church with only a minute to spare yesterday.  But we got lucky and the last bench was still available.  That made me happy because the benches are much easier with little kids than the hard chairs, and more comfortable!  During the meeting, Todd took Ethan out to go to the bathroom.  Then Madeline spilled all of her crayons.  I bent over and started picking them up.  It was a big bag of crayons so it was taking me quite a while, when the man in front of me started to tap my shoulder.  I sat up and he said, "Your daughter is turning the lights on and off."  I whipped my head around and there was Madeline standing on the bench and leaning over it to reach the main switch in the Chapel.  She was flipping it on and off, on and off.  I grabbed her hand and felt the entire congregation looking at us.  Really, they all were.  Even the entire Bishopric.

Okay, can I disappear now?!

But I survived the looks from everyone, because really . . . they all had the expression of "yes, I've been there before!"