Case Study

What do you do . . .?

Your Bishop-husband tells you the day before that he invited the missionaries over for dinner - TOMORROW. He claims he'll make pancakes, don't worry, the elders will love it. Oh and, he scheduled an interview at 7:15 that he'll just do at home after the elders leave, which will be right before he has to dash out to a PPI with the stake president.

The next night he sneaks in the door from work just in time to heat up the griddle. Gotta work fast, the elders are on their way. Then the doorbell rings and it's the 7:15 appointment standing at the door, ready for the interview - OVER AN HOUR EARLY. Dinner comes to a grinding halt and Bishop's-wife, who was off the hook, is now pressed in to duty.

Imagine background noise: toddler moaning with arms wrapped around Bishop's-wife's leg, 5 year-old screaming after fingers got slammed in the door, garage door opens and glass jars get knocked over as 8 year old slips out of the house and down the street on his bike. "Ding-dong." The Elders are here.

You:
A. Tie a couple of your sassy little aprons on the Elders and put them to work flipping pancakes and browning sausage.

B. Yank the Bishop out of his interview and give that ward member a piece of your mind for seriously re-arranging your evening.

C. Call 911 'cause this is really an emergency and someone might be dead soon.

D. Kneel down right there and then to thank the Lord for all of your many blessings.


Don't ask me what I would do. I NEVER handle these situations the right way. But fortunately the 8 year old came back and finished cooking the pancakes and stood at the griddle cooking all through dinner.

Next Quiz: What to do when one of the Elders, who is at your house on his FIRST day out of the MTC, wants to share an unusually lengthy message to really start his service off with a bang and the toddler is poopy/covered in syrup, the 8 year old keeps complaining loudly about the smell, the 5 year old is climbing in and out and over and under the couches all 7 of us are sitting on, and the Bishop is watching the clock a little too often 'cause he can't be late to meet with the Stake President and he still has to put on a white shirt and tie?