My Weekend

I've been staying home these past few days. Keeping everything light. Catching up on reading to the kids or delighting in watching them read on their own. Isabelle and Anna have blossomed and I find them reading everywhere. Isabelle has declared herself a "good reader" and that she "loves to read."

Last night during our family prayer time, Sophia said she was thankful for our baby in Heaven. Its been a habit to pray for the baby every night and I think she felt she had to somehow include him/her.

Since I'm not up to cleaning and organizing, Craig has been a sweetheart. He's been making delicious meals. Caught me up on my laundry (I'm so embarrassed he was able to do it so easily) and built me a new bookcase for the school room. I've also been relieved of diaper duty!!

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CHANGING THE SUBJECT ........

This morning was made for a funny blooper video!! Last night we had a 20 second power outage. Long enough to turn off ALL the clocks in the house. When we went to bed Craig only "updated" our alarm clock according to his watch. This morning we got ready and were ready to go to mass when we realized we were late!! We would be over 10 minutes late by the time we left and arrived to church!! Since we wouldn't be able to attend 10am mass, we decided to go to the parish next door for their 11am mass. So we waited 40 minutes and then loaded everyone in the van.

As we were driving to the church I looked at the clock in the van. It read 9:50 AM!!!

ME: "Craig, is the time in the van right?"

Craig: "No, it can't be. It should be 10:50 AM."

Well, we turned on the radio and it turned out it was 9:50AM!! The church we were heading to DID NOT have a 10am mass but we were too far away from our church to make it in time.

Turns out Craig set our alarm clock to his watch ACCORDING TO EASTERN TIME!!!! He had been in Connecticut this week.

So we were late AGAIN to the 10am mass at our church for the second time. This time Craig was VERY frustrated so we went and had tacos. Then we drove home and just waited for the noon mass at OUR church. The kids were thoroughly confused!! They thought we were just skipping mass and going straight to the tacos!! Especially since we went back home after eating breakfast to wait for another hour!!

But we arrived 15 minutes early for the noon mass (which we have never attended) and got first pick of pews.

So later it dawned on me that I woke up and showered at 6:30 AM instead of 7:30 AM!!!

The clocks have all been updated!!

That was our morning.

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Yesterday (Saturday), Craig went to the local Catholic bookstore to buy himself some books. I asked him to pick me up a statue for the front yard and a picture of the Madonna of the Streets. I've hung it up above my desk. I've decided this will be my memorial for the baby. Something simple. To the casual observer its a picture of Mary holding the Baby Jesus. But to me it is also a reminder that she holds my baby too. Very comforting for me but also a private memorial. Only Craig knows the second meaning behind the picture. I've chosen not to mention it to the kids.