Mommy's Soul Window

This week, Trent and I talked about going back to church and attending mass regularly every Sunday. It’s been challenging with both kids to hear mass because the local church we go to is not big enough to accommodate young children. We’ve been waiting for the new St. Joseph Church to open. It finally did last week and they had their first mass (Dedication Mass) last Sunday, and the Thanksgiving mass on Monday. Maia and I went to both and we left the boys at home. Today, we went as a family and we attended the first 5pm mass. We were actually there for the 10am mass but because it was big enough to handle at least 3x the capacity of the old church, they changed the schedule so we had to come back for the 5pm service.

We decided to go to the mall since we had a 12noon appointment for pictures. We ate lunch first. As soon as we stood up after eating, Aden decides to run and get lost in the middle of the crowd in the food court! Aaah!!! We panicked! I was yelling out his name, approached security and we were looking for him for I don’t know how long but it seemed forever! I was exasperated at what he did at the same time, I was more irritated that I was with my husband and not one of us was paying attention as to which direction he went. Trent found him standing by the carousel, watching the kids on the horses and he had no idea how scared and panicked his parents were. Oh boy… I had to calm myself down while we walked towards the studio.

After the pictures, we had Maia’s ears pierced! Yes, today was her 4th month birthday and that was her present. Just a little over an hour ago, I was building up giant beads of sweat when I lost Aden for a few minutes and now here I am sweating again for my baby’s ordeal. I held her tight so she won’t move her arms and head while hubby was carrying Aden. We had a lot of audience from passers by. People were stopping to see what was going on because she screamed at the top of her voice! The worse part was I had to wake her up to get her ear pierced! She was all better and happy a minute after they got done. That’s the beauty of doing it while they’re babies. I’m sure she won’t remember this event. I was a lot more nervous than my baby obviously.

There was a sixteen year old girl with her mom who got her ear pierced after Maia and she kept blaming her mom for not doing it while she was little. The mom kept saying that she wanted it to be her choice and it’s too late to regret and blame people now. I hope Maia doesn’t regret it.