Come Follow Me with a Toddler

So, many people are starting Come Follow Me blogs. I subscribed to one and like her ideas, but my kid is in nursery and very active, and I thought, I'm going to share what we're doing. If you like it- great! If not, fine. :)

First off, this is how we're doing the program. After shortened church on Sunday, we let my son play or turn on a show for him. My husband and I read together the next weeks chapters and then over the family idea section. (We try to just get my son distracted with playing with something so maybe he'll overhear us reading, but we don't do anything to try to get him to sit and listen. I love reading to him and he won't even sit for that most of the time....). Then we decide together what we want to do and that's what I'm going to be sharing.

Getting behind... now if you're like me, sometimes you get behind on goals and then start feeling overwhelmed by trying to "catch up". Honestly, my husband and I, didn't even attempt to do the first week. When we went to do our first one he asked if I wanted to go back and I said, "Nope! I don't want to be behind. So we're just going to be current, whether we have done the past stuff or not." So I hope if any readers grow to be dependent on me, instead of just using this as a resource- I hope for your sake that I stay current. :)

I decided I wanted to do more with my child even though he's young and honestly I don't think he'd sit for a lesson. My Mom is his nursery leader and actively tries to do lessons in nursery. She tells me that my son is rarely sitting and focused when she teaches. Yet.... he knows about prayers mostly from praying at snack time (which they no longer are doing with shortened church, but, she was doing it....). And she made puppets for the story of Jesus walking on water and Peter sinking. When we were over at her house he found her puppets and said, "Jesus" and "Peter" and "Ahhhh!" (while kinda shaking the Peter puppet- maybe he was sinking? But he still learned their names from the lesson). So I realized I really do need to up my game, even if it is in small and simple ways. So, that's where we are. I'll back track for the weeks we have done as a family for people interested, but they will likely all be short blurbs of a few sentences- maybe a full paragraph if I'm long-winded that day.