Weekend Contentment

My weekend was well spent. Saturday I spend the day at Dad's putting away his Christmas stuff. Can I just say how much I love the P-Touch Label Maker? Mine is kind of similar to this one. It is so satisfying to be able to label the containers neatly so that it will be easy to find things in the future. I even labeled the actual Christmas trees! No longer will we debate -- does this one go in the living room or family room.

I spent a good part of the day at Dad's wrapping ornaments for storage and organizing. It is fun doing this at his house because the work that I do stays done! At my house you can clean up a room and 2 minutes later 2 dogs and 3 tornadoes destroy all of your hard work. At Dad's I clean things up and it stays that way! AMAZING! That, and Dad really appreciates what I do. I'm happy to help him out -- it is nice to do things for him after all that he has done for me. I also am glad to spend the time with him. Losing my Mom has made me appreciate my Dad so much more. I'd take her back in a heartbeat, but I'm glad I can cite a good thing that has come out of this loss.

My Mom's friends have continued their remembrance of her through monthly masses. The day is switching to Fridays now -- the first Friday of the month instead of the first Tuesday. My Dad told me the bonus is that if you go to mass the first Friday of the month for 9 months straight that you will be in special graces with the Lord. It is amazing how much I don't know about my religion. I am slowly learning! While I don't agree with all of the doctrines of the Catholic Church, I find the basics to be in line with my beliefs. I'm grateful that I was raised Catholic because I have found my religion to be a comfort to me in recent years. I can't imagine coping with loss without my faith.

I am pleased that my church is now offering a non-traditional religious education program for kids. How cool is it that the program is a family program which gives parents back the responsibility of educating their children? So we went to the program meeting on Sunday and I found it useful. I'm so glad I like this program. When Mom passed I was at a loss for how to get my kids to CCD on weekdays. I'm glad we have this other option now.

The other good thing this weekend was a GREAT weekend of indoor soccer! Both teams (Super Girl and Wonder Boy's) opted to participate in the winter session. It is great to see the kids and their families again. The added bonus is that both teams won their games! The kids were happy and so were we.

School starts back this week. I'm nervous! How silly am I? Time to finish my student teaching application for the fall. Wish me luck!