All I Want For Christmas is to be a Sunbeam

Elle has never, never, NEVER in her life enjoyed nursery. It has been a headache week after week, after frustrating week, since she has turned eighteen months. Johnny and I have tried everything we could possibly think of, but no matter what we tried, she hated nursery with a passion. She would always tell me that nursery was filled with a bunch of babies, and they all bothered her. I tried telling her that Hudson was a baby and she loved him. She of course put me straight, by telling me that it is walking babies that bother her—so Hudson has yet a little while before he becomes an inconvenience. I have since been trying to get her excited about Sunbeams—forget trying to make nursery happen— seeing as how she will graduate into Primary come January. She, of course, gets really excited, and wants to attend her new class immediately. All I have to tell her is that she gets to go with the big kids, and she is hooked—no more babies. The only problem is that she still has a few weeks before she is officially a Sunbeam. I try to explain this to her, but she is having none of it. She begs me over and over to take her to Sunbeams. She keeps telling me, “I am a Sunbeam Mommy.” Finally, today, I decided to ask the Primary president if she could sit through a little bit of Primary. She at once took Elle by the hand and sat her in the Sunbeam class. Elle smiled at me, waved goodbye, and never looked back. I kept checking on her here and there throughout church—through the windows on the doors of course; I wouldn’t want her to see me—but she never needed me. She was just fine. When church was over, and I went to get her, she was all smiles. She told me how much fun she had, and that she wants to go again. With a big smile she said, “I love being a sunbeam!”

I am so glad that she loves her Sunbeam class. I have always felt that she would like church when she could graduate into Primary (she has always liked order and structure—something that is almost nonexistent in nursery). Thankfully, she loves being a Sunbeam and participating in Primary.