Funeral, Wedding & Parade

This week has been a busy one and has been an opportunity to share some teachable moments with our girls about some of life's biggest disappointments as well as special moments.  On Friday we attended a funeral for a cousin's spouse who has went to his heavenly home ahead of their three young children.  We've prayed all week for their family - Claire cried once because she didn't like my answer about when you come back from heaven, but as expected, they didn't know exactly what was happening once we were there.  Since it was a Catholic funeral mass Stella had all kinds of questions and wanted to be able to see everything.  When I told her this church was different from ours, because all churches are different, she said 'just like all families are different?'.  (We can definitely tell she does listen and soak up what we are trying to teach her...)  At the end, when they incensed Stella whispered "Mommy, it smells like pancakes in here!".  Needless to say Mommy could really use her childish humor in that moment!  We've been trying to explain the difference between our spirits and our bodies for a while now, and they both had questions about that too so hopefully they are starting to understand this concept too!

On Saturday we went to a wedding for a childhood friend.  Everyone is tired and the girls have come down with a cold so while we didn't stay long they were able to see this special ritual too and Stella reminded me that I'm already married to daddy!

It's not often that Randy and I have a date night but this week we had two outings without the girls!  We had dinner out with friends on Saturday night and then played in the BMC Golf Tournament fundraiser on Sunday.  The girls were super excited to hang out with Grammie and Pa and Micaela while we were out!



Monday we celebrated Memorial Day with a trip to Canton to participate in the parade. A few weeks back the girls distributed poppies and collected money for programs which support Veteran's families.  Claire was the Poppy Princess this year and although she was definitely not feeling well, she was excited and happy to be there (then she went home and took a 4-hour nap!).  Stella passed out bubbles with Maddyn to many of the children who came out to watch the parade.  Tomorrow the girls get an extra day at home with daddy since BMC didn't use all of their snow days this year. May has been passing quickly and were looking forward to June to have a little bit of quiet and time at home!