Joey’s communion
May 4 – Day 4
So Dave and I woke up at a reasonable hour, had breakfast, and headed down to south Jersey for our nephew Joey’s communion. My first. We tried to listen to a station that we saw at a booth at the Summit arts & crafts festival, 101.9 – the day of the festival, they were playing great music. I knew almost every song, and liked all of them. But for some reason on Sunday, they kept playing songs we didn’t want to hear. Thank g-d for Sirius! We tried the coffee house but it was too mellow to get us going for the day, so ended up trading between Hair Nation and the 90s alternative stations. We love Hair Nation 
We got to the church, and it was a bright, sunny day – absolutely gorgeous. The church had very high ceilings, timber with lots of light streaming through windows. We found Dave’s mom and sister Katie, with a bunch of nephews and Joey’s sister Liz. It was the first time we’d seen them since our wedding, and the kids looked so cute and were all bubbly and fun. We sat down with them and then the service started.
Katie said to me, after the kids who were going to be receiving their first communion walked in, that she loves the way they all look – they look so holy. Watching them all dressed up in their suits and dresses, girls with veils, hands in prayer – they did look very holy, but I didn’t feel it the way Katy was, in her heart and soul. I know that I well up inside sometimes when I’m in temple, so I totally understood where she was coming from, what she was feeling.
After the mass and kids took pictures, we headed back to Dave’s sister Ava’s (Joey’s mom) to set up for the party. There wasn’t much for me to do – I put out some snacks in bowls, put the cushions on the patio furniture – and got a chance to relax and talk with Ava and Katie and Dave’s mom. It was a gorgeous day.
Tally:
Breakfast – cheese omelette, turkey bacon, crystal light, coffee
Morning snack – cheese stick
Afternoon snack – doritoes, spinach dip / rye bread cubes, cheese curls
Linner (Dunch?) – uh oh…
Chicken finger, mac n cheese, sausage / cheese / tomato sauce on roll, more mac n cheese, broccoli
Dessert – rice krispie treat (with fun blue sprinkles which made them have blue spots!)
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