When Ellie asked if Grammy would be here when she got home from school I told her, "No, Daddy and Grammy will get here right about dinner time. But I still don't know what we're having ..."
Ellie promptly said, "Mommy can we just do casual? Grammy doesn't care what we eat, she just wants us to be together!"
What a perspective! Ellie recognizes that its not about the meal, or the clothes - its about being able to celebrate together, as a family all the joys of her First Communion this weekend.
And in looking back - here's the photo capturing the time of my First Communion. There was chaos during that time in my life too. My father was in the hospital. And in our family, that means it was the time just before he died. And on the morning of my First Communion a neighbor and close friend's father was killed in an auto accident. So it was a rough time to say the least.
Ellie's will not have that kind of trauma. Hers is filled with plans to see family and to move to Texas. That's the excitement we'll share as a family as she makes her First Communion this weekend!
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| Jude's First Communion photo ~ credit: George Bolster Actual First Communion Day - May 19, 1974 |
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