So this weekend, two different things happened that made me feel like I was a bad parent. I am sure that they are not really the end-all, be-all of bad parenting, but I felt bad, hence the self-labeling.
1. So, on Saturday, Lukin did not feel a nap was a necessity. I guess this could just be him growing out of that phase. I don't know. Anyway, we decide that we are going to go for Applebee's for supper because we have a gift card. Well, if you are a parent, you can probably guess where this story is leading already: Lukin fell asleep on the drive. Now that part doesn't make me feel like a bad parent, he does that all the time. That part (the bad parenting) is coming. So we go in, and he doesn't wake up. He is sitting on my lap and I am reading him the kid's menu trying to decide what to order, and he doesn't even stir. Finally, I just look at my menu and lay him down on the bench beside me, thinking that would wake him. It doesn't. We decide not to order him any meal, but if he awakens during the meal, we will order him a soup. Fair enough. But he didn't wake. At all. In fact, I had a hard time getting his jacket on him when it was time to leave because he was just limp.
Of course, when he got his coat on, he started to wake up and was not happy that he slept through the meal. He kept saying, "Eat. Eat," on the way home. And he did when we got home. He had three pieces of toast and then some popcorn with Mommy and Daddy while watching the Sioux hockey game.
2. The second one was at church Sunday morning. It was time for communion and I leaned over to ask Sonny what the age for communion was and he said there wasn't one. Well, Lukin wanted to go up with Mimi and Papa and I was pretty sure that they would cave if he wanted some so I wouldn't let him go up with the three of them. He sat in the pew with me. He had a pouty lip for like 20 seconds when they first left and then he came and sat with me, and was fine. I felt bad for him having the pouty lip, but not for not letting him have communion when he is only 2.
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I know you guys aren't Catholic, but I think he should know why he is receiving the Host before he receives the Host. Good call on that one.
That was kind of my rationale too. If he goes up now and has "bread" with Mimi and Papa, how is he going to transfer that thought process to it being the "body" instead? It would be too confusing for the little guy.
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