Church Cry Rooms

Every Sunday, our family is in church and lately we have been attending the 7:30am mass at Good Shepherd Catholic Church. This is a big change from our usually 11:00am or 12:00pm attendance. Why so early? We have an 18 month old who can halfway pay attention or rather not act up for roughly ten minutes. The 11:00am mass is over crowded, if you are not early you can forget about finding a seat. We are always late. So that means that we have to stand during the entire mass and chase after Carter. As you can imagine it is not that prayerful. My husband suggested we try the 7:30am mass and so far it is working for us.

The beauty of the 7:30am mass is the availability of the cry room. It is small, but at least it is present for families such as ours. This Sunday walking in late as usual we made a beeline to the cry room and took a seat. We were the only ones in there. Halleluia! After the homily we managed to get eight more people to fill the room. That would have been just fine, except Carter was the only little in the room that was designed for her. At one point she was too noisy in the CRY ROOM so my husband had to take her outside. I feel cry rooms should be reserved for families with children five and under. Cry rooms should not be used as overflow seating.