This was an interesting week. Emmi went to Vacation Bible School for the 1st time. It was Pirate Camp. Or, I should call it a big disorganized mess run by unfriendly thoughtless people(it was NOT at our church just for the record). BUT, all in all Emmi had a good experience and it was good for her and Cori to have a break from each other. They love each other fiercely, but because we have been keeping things so low key for Cori, Emmi was getting cabin fever. Emmi really NEEDED to do this. However, I have never seen a bigger mess at drop off and pick up and no one wanted to help anyone figure out where to go.
On the flip side, Cori was very concerned the 1st day we dropped Emmi off. I think she thought we were getting rid of her Jie Jie ( Big Sister in Chinese ) and wasn't convinced we were coming back for her until we did. After that she was ok with it.
The worst part happened on Thursday. They told the parents the kids were going to have a Family Night presentation/performance Thursday night to show off what they learned, have the kids there by 6:15pm. We thought this was great so we invited my parents and grandmother down to see Emmi on stage and celebrate her finishing her 1st VBS. What this Church neglected to tell people was that it was their Thursday night service that didn't actually start until 7pm, that the regulars get there before 6 and block off the good seats including the handicapped accessible seats, that no one will be helpful and will be rude if you ask for help, oh and that the service would be very dark and very loud and very Charismatic and the kids wouldn't perform until well after 8pm!!!!!!!! So, there I am with my 92 year old grandmother, my older parents, and worst of all Cori who just completely shut down. I had Cori in my mei tai because I know strange settings tend to overwhelm her. About 20 minutes into the service I chased down an usher (literally chased) to find out when the kids were doing their thing and found out it wouldn't be until after 8pm. SERIOUSLY! Needless to say there was no way we could stay that long, so we (me with Cori, My dad and his walker, Michael pushing my grandmother in her wheelchair, and my mom) all headed out and went to get Emmi from the 4 year old room. Praise the Lord Emmi was ok with leaving. But we have felt the effects of this horrible event ever since. The trauma of it set Cori back about a week. We have been having very rough nights, more clingy behavior, and she even wet the bed yesterday. I feel so bad for her and I am furious with these thoughtless people who thought it was ok to trick people into coming to their service.Why could they not have said "The kids are going to do a performance at our Thursday night service to show off what they learned. The service starts at 7pm." That way families could plan accordingly. We would have known this was a bad idea for Cori and just not gone. Let me just say that this week REALLY made us appreciate our church, Generations Christian Church. GCC doesn't feel the need to trick people into coming to our church. Loving and serving people gets them there much more effectively.
So, we're staying in this weekend to help Cori recover and not even going to our church. =( .
Next post will be a picture post. I REALLY need to get my camera unloaded and posted to picasa!
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