Simply take your three children to Mass for the Foot Washing and etc (its a long one!) by yourself.
Leave the husband at home!
Make sure the smallest child has not napped!
I had never been to the Triduum masses before this year. I'm a cradle catholic but we were not devout I suppose. I mean, we did Holy Days of Obligation (Mom took me out of school even) but we never went to the extras. The extras tend to be the coolest parts.
Different churches handle foot washing differently. Ours has 5 stations set up around the church. Lines form. Father washes the feet of the first person at each station. After that, your feet are washed and you wash the feet of your neighbors in line.
Brenna's feet were SO FILTHY from all the outside time earlier (crocs) that she and I stayed in the pew- washing is optional, not required.
My son and his RCIA classmates washed each other's feet. There was horseplay in the line but the actual foot washing was fairly reverant.
Undoubtedly not reverant and GIRM-y enough for some, but that is another post entirely.
(GIRM is the officially prescribed order of the mass and how things should be done.)
Towels were brought to dry feet and then washed and donated to St Vincent de Paul.
guess who forgot to bring a towel?!
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