Just Get Me to the Church on Time

We usually do a great job of arriving on time to church. Church starts at 11am so we start getting ready after breakfast (around 8:30am) with the goal to leave at 10:30am. With that kind of a time frame, we usually don't have trouble making it. If every event, every dr. appt., etc had a 2 hour window of time to get ready then I would ALWAYS be on time. Anyway, I have been slowing down a little these last couple of weeks if you had not guessed. This morning, we were on track until we sat down to read some books before we got dressed in our Sunday clothes. I got really drowsy so I HAD to snooze- just for a few minutes. A few minutes too many and we were late to church. Allie and Luke always like to say hi to Jason (the kiss and a hug) before church starts but today the opening hymn was already playing when we walked in the back end of the building. Allie took off running toward the chapel with Luke following behind and I, waddling at the very back, trying to keep up. She is very fast and I am very slow these days. It took me a second to find her and sit down but we made it before the end of the opening song. What I did not know until much later and many people commenting was what happened before we found each other and took our seats. Apparently Allie RAN into the chapel and yelled "DAD!", ran up the isle, ran on to the stand, ducked around the chorister leading the hymn, and gave her Dad a kiss and a hug before coming back down. That was when Luke and I finally made it in the door to the chapel, got the program and took our seats. People thought it was touching- I thought it was embarrassing although I totally missed it so I guess it doesn't matter anyway!