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Baptism Event - WWYD?

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in December 2010 Moms

We are getting DS2 baptized next month.

The church service is at 11am. We live about a 5 minute drive from the church.

Do you think I should do a breakfast/brunch thing before the service at our house or a lunch thing afterwards?

Before the service I feel like it would be hectic trying to have people over while making sure the boys are dressed and ready to go to church.

But I feel like after the service it'll be meltdown city at our house since both boys will need lunch/naps as soon as we get home (probably around 12:30-1pm).

I'm assuming that there will be 15-20 people there - including a few friends who have young children (ages 3 or under) who will also take naps in the afternoon (maybe 4 kids total in addition to our own).

I am also not going to cook - I'd probably go to Costco the night before and buy some sandwich/wrap trays, veggies trays, drinks, etc. so food prep would be fairly easy either way I think...

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  • bumpuser260585bumpuser260585 member
    I would do lunch after church. I would worry that if you had people over before you may have a hard timw getting everyone out of your house on time. It would stress me out. I would rather deal with a nap meltdown.

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  • jarebearsmomjarebearsmom member
    I would do lunch.  Especially if you are getting sandwich trays. Things will be too stressful and hectic if you do it before
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  • StrunellaStrunella member
    Lunch afterwards, definitely.  Trying to get all of those people out of your house on time, plus getting the kids ready will never happen.   DS' baptism was also at 11:00 am and we just ordered some trays from the Italian restaurant and had
     
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  • Cheekers2010Cheekers2010 member
    Yep.  Lunch.  You can always put DS down for his nap.  Everyone should understand.
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  • bosha711bosha711 member
    I also agree with doing lunch. The older kids will probably just eat & play & forget all about napping. At least your guests' kids will probably conk out on their car ride home!

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  • stephy1221stephy1221 member
    We did a luncheon after with A's baptism. I think it would be to chaotic to do something before the baptism and it would get the kids too hyped up right before church.
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  • lrn327lrn327 member
    Any chance there is a room at your church that you could use for the lunch, assuming you'd bring your own food?  That would at least cut down on travel time.  I agree though that lunch is best regardless of where you have it.  C was pretty
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  • TMNTgirlTMNTgirl member
    I was leaning towards lunch, but just wanted to make sure I wasn't totally mis thinking things.

    I'm sure the older 2 and 3 year old kids can just eat and play outside in the backyard and be distracted enough to be okay missing naps. Then may

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  • mamaholmes2010mamaholmes2010

    O's baptism was at 11am as well.  We did lunch afterwards.

    What I had to add was I have an Aunt who doesn't go to church-she is like totally against it.  So she offered to stay at my house and meet the caterer so that when everyone ca

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  • xxbabycakesxxxxbabycakesxx member
    Lunch afterwards is a good idea.
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  • lulu8109lulu8109 member

    Ditto PPs - lunch afterward.  Breakfast/brunch before would be too hectic for me.  Either your DS can take a nap during the party or later in the afternoon... or even just skip it that day.

    DS' baptism was at 11:00 too and we had lunc

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