Carter's Question of the Day

Several times a week I am reminded of how much Carter's personality is like my brother's personality. Things are very black and white in his mind and he is ultra conservative as far as church goes. Growing up, my brother could be found standing at the front door on Sunday mornings completely dressed and ready to go and yelling for the rest of us to hurry up because we were going to be late. He woke up extra early for early morning seminary and made sure we were on time no matter what. Once, when I tried to get a few extra minutes of sleep he yelled my name so loudly from my doorway that I jerked up and my back hurt for the rest of the morning. So there's the background info for today's story.

Carter was given a handout at church for a primary activity next Saturday. He read it right away and was of course very excited about it. Matt looked at the handout and told Carter it was the same time as his baseball game so he'd miss the primary activity. After all, we've paid for baseball and he missed this Saturday's game because he woke up puking in the middle of the night. We'd hate for him to miss 2 games in a row, especially when there are only like 10 games of the season. We tried explaining that he could come to the activity after the game if it was still going on and we offered to get the materials so that he could do the activity at home after the game if the activity was already over. Carter's response you might ask? It was this.... "What's more important, church or baseball?" Ugh. Help please, I'm raising my brother!