All you Saints we don't know

Part of our nighttime prayers involves singing a litany of the saints. Now Maria is the most musically inclined when it comes to singing, so she has pretty much internalized the pattern of saints we go through each night... many are the ones the kids got their middle names from: Thomas More, Faustina, Tarcisius, and also Anna and my confirmation saints. Typically after we get through these standard ones we open the floor to any other saints the kids want to add in. After these I’ll close it all down with Roger Holtz’s tune of “all you holy men and women pray for us.” Well this evening, Maria took the initiative and closed it down singing confidently: “All you saints we do know pray for us. All you saints we don’t know pray for us.”

Like Clockwork

This phenomonon has been occuring nearly every morning and we have only now thought to document and share it. More often than not between 5:30 am and 6:30 am Joshua giggles in his sleep. It is quite funny to be around for, and it is so consitant that we are going to try to record it.

"What if she says 'no' "?

Aunt Emily told us that one of her friends had three people ask her to prom. Well Joshua happens to have some romantic interest in this particular 17 year old girl, so he asked what prom was.

After our simple explanation he, wanted to know about dating, marriage, liking, loving and how it all works. The following is the discourse that we have NO IDEA where it come from ,but it had us all in stitches.

Mom: "if you like someone you ask them to go on a date, and if they like you back they say yes. Then you get to go places together. After a while if you start to love them ad want to marry them you ask them to marry you and if they say yes than you can get married."

Joshua: "What if they say no?"

Dad: " Than you can't marry them."

Joshua: " And you tell them to pay you $20 back."