It's fall clean-up time at our church, and somehow our job - wiping down the pews with Murphy's Oil, became way more complicated than it needed to be.
It started with a phone call a couple weeks ago from the woman who was supposed to be our work crew's leader. She basically told me she was far too busy and dumped the responsibility on me. After multiple phone calls to the othe person in our work group, and a wasted trip to church to take care of things - only to discover the door locked, Jeff and I finally completed our task - on our own - on Monday night.
We'd brought DVDs for the kids to watch in the nursery, but Sydney thought it was far more fun to try and help us. AJ, the older and wiser of my children, stuck to the toys in the nursery. When he did venture into the sanctuary, it was to play the piano or ask questions about the scenes depicted in the various stain glass windows.
In the end - despite our children's "help" - it took us less than an hour to finish the job. It wasn't until I went to cross our task off the master list that I realized we'd only been responsible for the pews on one side of the church. In other words, we'd accidentally managed to complete not only the job assigned to our work crew, but also to an entirely different work crew. That'll teach me to read carefully what exactly we're supposed to do!
This is the third or fourth year we've been assigned to help clean the pews. I always wonder if it's just a coincidence, considering the amount of candy and treats we make available to our children to keep them quiet during the church service.
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