We Survived

Or at least externally everyone seems to have survived 7th Heaven's visit to the convent.  When they arrived the Charmer played his shy card, but he quickly recovered and turned on his normal charm with all of the Sisters.  Before their arrival I had warned one of the younger Sisters of his charming characteristics.  I don't think she believed me but within 2 hours of his arrival she was aware of his charm.

Sunday we went to Philly to check out some of the historic sites.  Star wanted to go see the Liberty Bell.  I'm fairly certain she has no idea what exactly the Liberty Bell is and we didn't actually get a chance to get up close it because of the long line.  We saw it from a second story window of Independence Hall instead.

Monday I took them around the school.  Liz Taylor came along with me to help in the cafeteria.  All the girls freaked out because we look so much a like and they thought it was cool that I had family visiting.  Then we went to the Provincial House to have snack time with the elderly Sisters.  Liz Taylor was in heaven or at least she might have been until the Sisters started talking about her following in my footsteps.

Tuesday we headed to the Crayola Factory.  It was a pretty cool place. They had a lot of really neat interactive stuff.  I spent a lot of time coloring while watching the kids on the massive playground they had inside.

So anyway all I heard about all day Wednesday and Thursday was how cute my siblings are and what a joy it was to have them visit.


On a totally different note of survival.  The Easter Triduum in the convent is a bit more intense than out of the convent even when you follow the Peggy days of obligation. Good Friday was an all day silent retreat. It was intense.  The parish I went to for all the services has a strong Spanish population and at one point I guess there were a lot of Italians there too, so all of the services were tri-lingual.  Definitely not something you ever found at my home parish.

The whole community pitches in to help prepare the Easter dinner.  I signed up for beverages because I thought how hard can that be? Just set out the trays of pop (or soda as they say on the East coast) and beer. Turns out that also includes making a punch.  Again not too hard and it actually turned out pretty well.  Some of the Sisters enjoy a glass of wine so I figured since it was kind of an important dinner I should make sure there was wine out.  I tracked down one of the Sisters and she helped me get out the right wine and then she was like here go open them.  When I told her I had no idea how to open a wine bottle she quickly told me I was going to learn right now.  So on Easter I learned how to open wine.

"I'm so excited..

and I just can't hide it." Because in 48 hours AL and some of the Seventh Heaven Crew are making their way to visit the convent.  The Srs. tell me they are excited too, but I'm not sure if they realize what is about ready to descend upon our house...

It's really a big moment if you think about it convent meet the fam, fam meet the convent.

Stayed tuned for more updates as the adventure unfolds.

Supporting Roles

Tuesday the news segment on the Srs. aired on the local news station.  The news anchor did a really nice job on portraying the Salesians as well as the other community she interviewed for the clip.

http://pix11.com/2016/03/01/young-women-become-nuns-to-pursue-their-passions-with-god/

God decided to answer my prayers of avoiding saying anything embarrassing or ridiculous by having my role in the clip be just watching the other Srs. answer questions.