Week In My Life: Saturday

I'm just now writing this post, since last night I was wallowing in despair...stupid Buckeyes.

Let's start with the good stuff.  We started the morning getting ready for Laura's first Reconciliation.  This is a sacrament in the Catholic Church where one goes to a priest and asks forgiveness for all of his or her sins.  The priest, through God, forgives the individual's sins, and the individual receives Christ's love and mercy.  Laura was so excited!  All the girls dressed up in their pretty dresses.

They had a nice little service prior to the confessions being heard.  Laura chatted with all of her friends prior to the service.  They all checked out each other's dresses, since they are always in uniforms!  They had nine priests.  So three stayed in the church, and six went over to the school classrooms.  There were about 60ish kids receiving their first Reconciliation.  Of course we ended up near the back of one of the lines at the school due to the "glub incident."

Gaggle of girls

Laura waiting for the service to begin.

I mentioned on Friday that we went to Target to get shoes for Laura.  Well, Hannah ended up getting some too, and Emma wanted some new glubs (gloves).  Remember the picture earlier in the week with her standing in her jammies, princess crown, and her Michael Jackson glove?  We  walked in Target, and Emma spotted a shelf stuffed with those stretchy gloves.  She dug through it till she found the perfect pair, and that's what she got at Target.  There is another funny glub story that I will tell later.  So fast forward, she of course wore her glubs to the ceremony.  Well when it was time to go to a priest, we of course could not find one of her glubs!  Oh no!  We searched under our pew, under the pew in front of us, everywhere - no glub.  So we left to get in a line - at the end of one!

Laura's friend, Julia, was next in line behind us, so we chatted with them.  We have gotten to know many of the parents in Laura's class, and Julia is one of her good friends.  In the course of talking, Julia's mom had spotted the missing glub!  Apparently Emma had dropped it on the way into church.  So Emma and I walked back over to the church to reclaim it.  Emma was so happy to have both of her glubs.

As Laura neared the front of the line, she was getting a little more nervous.  But she didn't have too much time to think about it, as the line went fairly quickly.  Laura came out literally glowing!  She was so excited when she was done.  She said she felt so much better.  We went to the cafeteria, and she received a certificate and a pin.  Then we enjoyed some punch/coffee and cookies.  It was a nice morning.

The girls after the reception

The glubs

Next we came home and got into our gameday mindset!!  Matt had recorded College Gameday, which was at Ohio State this weekend, and we watched it and cracked our first adult beverages.  I had purchased a sixer of my favorite seasonal beer, Christmas Ale.  Matt decided to try it, and he decided he doesn't like it!  Whaaattt?  Crazypants.  I worked on the Legos with Laura that she got for her birthday for a while, and we made monkey bread, also Laura's request.  Our neighbor stopped over for a while, which was fun.  The kids all played together, and we chatted and watched some of the noon games.  Then later of course, the Buckeyes came on and were terrible.  For some reason, the whole time we were only up 7 or tied, I just wasn't worried until the very end.  I kept thinking that we would go to OT.  But no.

Our first try at Monkey bread.  Yum!

Laura battling Emory.

Hannah, or I mean Katniss, taking on Darth Small (Emma)

A battle occurring behind the couch.

Laura and the finished product.

Oh well, it's Beat M*ch*gan week now!!  That's really all that matters.

After the game we found a movie on Netflix or HBO - Blended.  It had Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in it.  I really didn't have high expectations, but it was a pretty good movie.  It had some good, funny parts in it.  Emma fell asleep in the chair.  So Matt carried her upstairs and read Hannah a bedtime story.  Laura finished drawing her picture, and then she and I called it a night.

Hannah and her picture.

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