Pee Wee Ville

Today was Peyton's first time at Pee Wee Ville (our church nursery) and we all survived! I say we all because it is more like, mommy survived! I decided last night that it was about time that I allowed a stranger to take care of Peyton considering that in January she will be heading to day care. You would think this would have been a relatively easy event for me since I have been serving in Pee Wee Ville for  2 1/2 years and knew how great the people are but that was not the case. It is kind of funny, when I was serving before becoming a mom I never truly understood the complexity of the look of fear in a parent's eye when they dropped off their child. I knew that it must be hard but it never hit me the amount of trust that the parent was putting into me to watch their precious child. I am sure that this morning I had the look of fear in my eyes and whenever I do go back to serving in Pee Wee Ville this experience gives me new compassion and a heart for serving these parents. 

So, this morning we made all the preparations to leave a little earlier for church and made it to the 8:30 AM service. We headed into Pee Wee Ville Lane and went to registration and got to show Peyton off to all the staff that have been so supportive of John and I and have been such a big part of our serving there. We got our tag and headed over to the infant area to check her in. They put a name tag on her and we put all of her stuff she would need in a little basket (we only left a pacifier but you are supposed to leave her food etc so they don't give her anything she isn't supposed to have) and then with great hesitation and feeling sick to my stomach, I handed her over to the caregiver. Since Peyton had eaten before we left and then had a car ride she was pretty much out (and it was during her morning sleep time) so I told them that if they put her in a swing she would probably sleep the entire time. We headed over to church and I tried very hard to pay attention and then as soon as it was over we hurried back over and looked in the window to see what was going on and sure enough there was our little pink bundle passed out in the swing. We picked her up and they said that she woke up for a minute, looked around to see where she was and then went back to sleep. Overall it went very well and we will be heading back next week.