Stake Conference - Toddler style

First off, let me just say that Stake Conference is like going to church but instead of coercing my child into a seat for an hour until he/she can play, it is two. My children can be wrangled for an hour but after that it starts getting a bit dicey. As such I doubled my church bag and armed myself with snacks, my tablet, basically anything they wouldn't normally get in church but I'm desperate, so I cave. All in all it went pretty well. Either child only needed to be taken out for ten or fifteen minutes max. We did lose all the contents of a milk cup, that was sad on multiple levels. And I think a crayon may have gone astray as well. Not too terribly bad when all is said and done, and yet I still left feeling a little shell-shocked. I didn't leave feeling spiritually enriched so much as relieved I had survived two hours in a confined space with two active toddlers. I love my babies. Really I do, but I'm hoping that stake conference, and church to some extent, will soon stop feeling like a three-ring circus and eventually transition back to a beacon of peace and fellowship. Until then, at least they're cute those babes of mine and they know where my priorities lie. Somehow it does make it all easier.