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First Confession (or Reconciliation as the Kids Call It These Days)

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This is my church. I was married here. My children were baptized here. I taught CCD (religion classes) here last year to first graders. A lot of lovely memories. Tonight, we made a new one. G made his first confession this evening. Officially called "First Reconciliation", this is an 8-year-old's first chance to say "Bless me Father for I have sinned..." and later rattle off the freshly-memorized Act of Contrition before bolting the confessional. Oh, and to be absolved his sins. He had three choices of confessional priest tonight. Two sat in chairs in far-off niches of the church and took confessions face-to-face (or really shoulder-to-shoulder so the kids wouldn't have to actually confess their heinous second-grade sins while looking a priest in the eye). One sat in a traditional screened confessional behind the red velvet curtains. (Not our church but the confessional looks basically like this one.) G picked Priest #3 behind the curtains. Of course. For th

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Gotta love it! (Now if I can just get them to learn the Notre Dame fight song...)

Maybe I'm Just Slap Happy

My children have been at home, with me, in my presence, every day since December 18th (except this past Tuesday, which was the worst kind of tease). It is now January 8th. Everything - school, sports, lessons - canceled "due to extreme weather conditions". I'm going a teensy bit insane. Which may explain why I find this so funny. Call the Nestle Crunch Hot line at 1-800-295-0051. When you are asked if you want to continue in English or Spanish, just wait quietly for about 10 seconds and you will smile. Promise! Keep going and press 4. Listen to the options, then press 7 (then press 9 and go back to hear others). Seriously. Do it. And then tell me what you think!