My Mistake

So, this morning I was all ready for the family history enrichment group that our ward has started so that moms can go work on family history at the church and we can rotate babysitting each others’ kids. I was planning on babysitting the whole time this week because the others let me take extra time last time we got together for this to get some temple cards ready, so I was all ready to take my turn watching all the kids for everyone else. I packed snacks for all the kids and took movies, and we were all set. I stopped at the post office on the way there, so I got there about 5 minutes late, and no one was in the nursery room.

I waited around next to the family history center for almost half an hour before I decided that no one else was going to show up, and I ended up taking the boys in to the family history center with me (I thought I might as well try to get some work done, since we had already made the trip out there). After almost an hour of telling the boys to use quiet voices, telling them that the chalk was only for drawing on the chalk board and not for the walls and chairs, and finally letting them run around in the hallway while I finished up for the last few minutes, I got the rest of our family names that I have been preparing this month run through the TempleReady program and submitted so they are ready to print all the cards when we go to the temple next week. I was thinking when we left that next time I go, I would just give a call to Kim Cannon, the other mom who is doing this family history enrichment group, and make sure she will be going, because it's too much work to try to get anything done in their with the kids so I probably wouldn’t go the next time if no one else happens to be going that day.

Then we went to the playgroup and met Amy Hymas there so our kids had fun swimming at the splash pool. When we got home, there was a message from Kim Cannon on the phone. I figured she was calling to apologize for not going today, until I heard the whole message, "Hey Stephanie, I guess I missed you at the family history group today, just wondering what happened, talk to you later." And while I put the boys down for their nap, I was trying to figure out if there was some way that we could have both been at the church building at the same time and still missed each other – like maybe she and her kids were in the bathroom when I went to the nursery room and then they left through the back door? So, I went to call her back, and I glanced at the calendar. Well, the group was supposed to meet at 9am – I had it in my head it was at 9:30am. I called her and apologized. I guess she waited around at the church this morning and finally left right before I got there. And no one else showed up. Oh, I felt bad – I usually don't make mistakes like that. Oh well. At least she was really nice about it. I guess we’ll try again next month.