Great were the preparations today for the SSJ middle school youth group’s fall costume party!\u00a0 We hurried through school in the morning and then spent the afternoon painting the cane gold, taking Megan to church early to help set up, then coming home and getting The Riddler and The Sprite into their colorful hair and all such manner of frivolity.<\/p>\n
We were SO excited to leave at 6pm that we entirely forgot to bring the big box of food (for SVdP) the kids packed up to bring as their ticket into the party.\u00a0 (No worries – Paul will be going there tomorrow anyway so he can bring it then.)\u00a0 Donations to St. Vincent de Paul<\/a> are desperately needed right now because of the poor economy – it’s a double whammy:\u00a0 many more people need assistance, and many fewer people can afford to give.\u00a0 Anything you can do for your local chapter will be enormously appreciated!<\/p>\n I spent the evening perambulating around the campus with young Mr. Efrain, the adorable cuddly 5mo. old baby boy of my RCIA candidate, Malinda.\u00a0 He was highly perturbed for the first stretch, and consequently I walked, and sang, and carried him while pushing the stroller, and changed him, and fed him, and strollered some more, and finally he calmed down and got himself back into his usual happy mode, and I was able to sit down for about 15 minutes.\u00a0 I have not done that much non-stop baby duty in 11 years.\u00a0 I think I threw my hip out (wow that made me sound old)… Lol!<\/p>\n Anyway it was a highly successful evening both for the party peeps, and for Malinda, who got to listen undisturbed to Fr. Lankeit present the evening’s lesson on Mary and the Saints.\u00a0 We talked more about that on the way home, and had a good discussion.\u00a0 I’m so blessed to be able to be a sponsor! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Here are the pics I took before we left the house, and one with the older girls in their Police Woman and Gypsy costumes.\u00a0 Good fun!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n