Sharing Time

Today was a normal Sunday, so I thought. Having church at 8:30am seemed a bit too early to me today. I was a little late waking up since I just got back from a girls trip at 1am. Not a good start I guess, but didn't think much of it. We were a tad late to church, but we made it as the opening prayer was being said.
I had prepared my lesson earlier in the week since I knew I wouldn't have much time Sunday morning. Normal Sunday I thought until I walk into sharing time and one of the primary counselors asked if I was doing sharing time today. WHAT? You should have seen my face. I said no, and I said that I didn't know I was suppose to do it today. I didn't get a note in my roll a few weeks in advance like I had before telling me or a reminder note in the roll the previous week. Turns out I didn't even fill out my roll the week prior, but she said that they weren't doing the notes anymore and they were just going to call to ask. Turns out she forgot to call me. Not my fault, but I still ended up winging sharing time. When I have done sharing time in the past, I stress about it and get all nervous. I guess it was a good thing I was just thrown into it so I wouldn't have time to stress. The topic was. "I lived in Heaven before I came to earth" or something along those lines. Good thing my sunbeam lesson for today was pretty much the same thing! I just did my lesson. It turned out not to be long enough and I was not good at fudging any longer, so we sang a couple more songs. Then it was off to class time for me to do my lesson again. The kids enjoyed it.
This it pretty much what I did:
*Got a doll and placed it on a chair. Asked everyone to stand up, twirl around, touch head, toes, etc. and asked why the doll wasn't listening to me and obeying. (the doll is pretend)
*Where did the doll come from? (store)
*Where did we come from? (Heaven)
I had a long piece of string on the floor (representing Heavenly Fathers Plan) and had someone come up and walk along the line asking everyone to say things that are following Heavenly Fathers Plan go to church, read scripture, prayer, FHE, be baptized, take sacrament....) then I would push the child off the line and say something like.....you didn't say your prayers, you skipped church. They weren't following the plan when they don't do good things.
Overall it worked. the kids seemed to participate well and listened. Hope they got something out of it.