Multiple Choice Quiz
One week of Vacation Bible School is enough to:
a. Render me practically incapable of blogging, and of most communication with the outside world.
b. Cause me to nap every day; and not just light naps, but out-cold for-real-sleep naps.
c. Make me forget about the fact that I have not yet given away the gift certificates from Spring Reading Thing 2011 (ugh- sorry!).
d. Prevent me from noticing that a cup of milk has been sitting out all day…until my 5-year-old mentions that he drank his “breakfast milk” at 3:30 in the afternoon.
e. All of the above.
Correct Answer: e
Yes, last week was VBS week at our church. One week of Pandamania craziness. More than 600 kids and more than 300 volunteers. Singing, Bible stories, crafts, games. Getting up early, taking afternoon naps.
It was a great week. I loved working with a fantastic group of volunteers and seeing all the kids having such fun learning about God. But my favorite part of VBS is when I catch a glimpse of one of my kids thoroughly caught up in the moment, singing his heart out.
L.(5), singing during the "Rowdy Wrap-Up."
C.(12) was officially too old for VBS this year, so he spent last week volunteering (and he did a great job, by the way). But L.(5) was in a preschool “Bamboo Crew” and loved every minute of Pandamania. At one point, he asked if we could go to VBS twice each day.
[I told him that while that would be fun, and I would support him doing so, I had a feeling that all the grown-ups needed to go home and take naps, and would be unable to pull double VBS shifts all week.]
So while last week was really amazing, it was also really exhausting. Each day, we’d stumble into our house sometime before 1 p.m., I’d make lunch for the boys, sit bleary-eyed while they ate, and then announce the start of Nap Time.
Neither of them napped, because my kids are apparently blessed with some kind of freakish Neverending Energy, but I crashed every day into much-needed slumber.
And then it took me about 2.7 days to start feeling normal again, after VBS was over.
Here it is, Tuesday, and I think I’m mostly recovered. Well, to be honest, I still haven’t unpacked the backpack I used to carry all my VBS supplies and materials last week, and I have a VBS follow-up meeting later this week, but other than that, I think I’m mostly recovered.
So before something else comes along and completely distracts me, I’m going to draw the winners of the SRT ’11 gift certificates. And then tackle the piles of laundry that are waiting for me.
Yay for a great VBS week! Glad you are recovered! When you finish your laundry will you come to my house?
I hear ya!! My turn with VBS is next week, and I think I’ll feel exactly the same way.
Btw, Kyle has the same Crocs as L. He picked them out himself — the brightest ones he could find. Actually he did pass on the really bright yellow ones (thankfully).
We did Pandamania this year too! And what you experienced during the weekend afterwards is what we call “VBS hangover”
But I’ve found VBS is alot like childbirth. It’s stressfull, requires lots of advance planning though you are never really prepared, it’s messy, unpredictable, exhausting, & very chaotic, but the end results are worth it & by the next year you forget all the bad stuff & do it again.
My daughter (14) laughs as me cuz when I’m having a bad day now, I pop in our Pandamania soundtrack cd & soon I’m singing & dancing along.
Now if this were Facebook, I’d vote “Like”.
Mom
We are heading for Pandamania in a few weeks. Glad to hear it was a big hit with L. The boys love VBS regardless of the theme, but I have a feeling this year is going to go over very well. My only responsibility is to contain the preschoolers and direct them to the right stations. How hard can that be? LOL! Hope you get some relaxation time! You’ve earned it.