This!!! I am SO struggling with this right now. Feeling pulled in a thousand different directions with every party having it’s own agenda!
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One of my husband’s favorite expressions is ‘if you are not on time, you are late’. Luckily myself and 2 of our 3 children agree. The 1 who can’t be on time, or get himself together for anything in a timely fashion (ever) has ADD.
We also live outside of the city that most of our friends are in. Since its a 30-50 minute drive, depending on traffic, they all know that we sometimes show up a little early because we can’t anticipate how long it will actually take us. But I would never show up more than 10 minutes early. And even then, we will sit in the car for a few extra minutes so as not to intrude too soon.
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Reminds me of my parents at my wedding. I warned them it would take an hour to get to the church from their hotel, because they’re frequently late.
So the day of wedding the priest comes in to the waiting room and tells me and my groomsmen it’s time. We start filing out then I stop and say “wait, are my parents here?”. One of my grooms runs out, comes back and says “nope”. So we wait and 20 minutes later they show up.
Afterwards I asked my father what happened and his exact response: “It took us an hour to get there!”
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That would have been a big problem at our church. They scheduled three weddings in a row on Saturdays and then there is a 4pm mass. We were the last wedding of the day and the priest warned us that it would start promptly, with or without us ; ). Thankfully all the immediate family arrived on time but we did have some stragglers who missed some of the service because they were late.
@3rdkiddo While in the Civil Air Patrol, my son learned “early is on time”.
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