Sarah's baptism this morning was not as rough as I remember Micah's being. It was long, yes, but very little of it was in Greek and Susie, Paul's wife, took over the care of Kevin.
Rob and Jill have said they love their priest, but are not fond of the church. I know that we have a pretty unique church, but I couldn't help feeling sorry for their lack of community. Besides the family, the godparents, Paul & Susie, and us, there was only one person there who was not involved in the ceremony. Actually, I'm not really sure that he wasn't part of the staff too.
Emily's birthday party started at three this afternoon. We got home from the baptism/chrismation at about noon and the kids and Lexie immediately went down for naps. I played some computer football.
Lots of people came to the party. Jennifer said that she had sent out a lot of invites assuming that most folks would decline. It seems that was a bad assumption. There were a whole bunch of kids there. Kevin was able to hang out with Steven. It was a good time.
We just got a call from Amy that she's not doing well. Lexie and I are the music team for tomorrow. I need to get the kids down, pick out music, and practice it some.
Bless you guys for rolling with the punches and stepping up to deal with music.
I think we're going to establish a new rule that Amy not try anything adventuresome foodwise on Saturdays (if you consider a small piece of chicken adventuresome), but she was about as ill as I've seen in her months.
You may never know how much it means to have folks in the church who understand.
-M
Posted by: Michael at April 25, 2004 1:28 PMI can't thank you enough for taking on music today. Thank you both for sharing yourselves and your music. I appreciate you guys for offering your talents and for doing it with joy.
Love,
Amy
We enjoy doing the music. I wish I was better, but apparently not enough to actually practice a lot.
There were several songs that I wanted to play this week that I scratched from the list simply because they would be too difficult for me to get to an acceptable level overnight.
Nothing like doing the music occasionally to make you appreciate those who do it regularly. Thanks, Amy. And thanks too to Mark, Marlena, Cathy and Adrian.
Posted by: jmmj at April 25, 2004 10:05 PM