sigh...

So I want to preface this with: we love our callings.  They are great ways to get outside of ourselves and serve others and remember that our lil day to day schedule is not the end-all, be-all of our lives.  It helps us make sure jake fits into our world rather than making him our world (which is sweet but not always that healthy or helpful to him-he needs to learn that he's not the center of the universe...once he's a lil older ;)
anywho,
so our favorite calling is definitely stake missionary prep teachers.  We were meeting every Tuesday night but now with the new age limits for missions, there are many youth who can't come on Tuesdays due to Mutual etc, so the stake decided to have mission prep Tuesday nights and Sunday mornings.  I agree with this decision btw.  Where my grievance comes in is how we ALWAYS seem to be fighting for a room.  We were in this one room FOREVER in the bearcreek building on Tues nights and then all the sudden everytime we show up there are scouts in that room.  And it's hard to find an open big-enough room to spread out and roll play in with multiple mutuals and girl achievement activities going on.  What's up with that btw?? When I was growing up one ward had mutual on tues and the other on wed-never on the same night for obvious reasons.  Now, it's personally fun for us to get there a lil early and kick their lil khaki-butts out of there (too much? haha what can I say I'm competitive).  So we were looking forward to Sunday mornings cause the stake president reserved us the RS room in the stake center AND it's 7:30 AM so the building is pretty much empty right???  So we're just getting started-running a lil late so we're itching to get going, when in walks a bunch of priesthood leaders.  There was a sign on the door saying they were having a meeting in that room which is odd since we were told we would have the RS room for sure.  We pointed this out to them, but they said they scheduled the room so I guess we didn't have it reserved.  Granted they had a lot of people coming to watch some training, but please, that's what the overflow is for right?  They asked us two different times who we were/what we were teaching, and we told them-stake mission prep.  Seminary? no....stake mission prep.

Of course they apologized over and over for kicking us out etc and that normally we would take preference but they just had a lot of people coming (there better have been) etc.  Then the Bishop (as we're packing up our stuff) says, " oh wait...I know what this is- it's the stake missionary prep class right?"

...........sigh............YES! that is indeed what we told you 2 different times now!  I swear I am SO SICK of adults NOT LISTENING!!! They suck at listening-it's a fact.  They act like they are listening to you but then 5 min later they ask a question that you have already answered-it's like they don't hear you or something.  This obviously isn't the first time this has happened to me or Cody-we get it a lot for some reason.  I have a theory....after awhile adults get so used to teaching/lecturing/ explaining/being the leaders of their kids, jobs, callings, what have you etc, that after awhile they forget how to listen and actually hear what younger people are saying around them.

Which I can understand.  Sometimes, when Jake has really fussy days after awhile I find myself tuning him out slightly just out of self-preservation, but my theory is, that some adults forgot to turn their ears back on after years of doing this.  Not to say that all parents ignore their kids etc, but I think it can be really hard as a parent to truly sit and listen to our kids and not try to push all of OUR knowledge/wisdom/experiences on them but really listen and hear some of THEIR thoughts/observations/etc...

I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me.  I'll say something and then there will be this pause.....and then it registers to them that I indeed had just spoken and then they tune back in, "oh...what?" and even then, chances are five minutes later they'll say something that lets me know that they didn't infact hear or comprehend what I said.

So there you have it, listening comprehension among adults is suffering people-try to hear the people around you!

ok, rant over.