Glad you had a rockin’ Saturday. I pulled for the USA. England is a great place to visit with a beautiful country side, but I was pullin’ for the old red, white and blue!!!

Enjoy the rest of the week/end. I will poke my head in again soon.

Our Saturday was good we went to my son in laws cottage at Catawba, played in the sand with Gavin and watched the boats go by …. and watched the England USA match I taught Gavin the chant ” Meat Pie Sausage Roll cmon England gi us a goal.”….BUT all I got from him was gigglies I think he thought I had lost it…. I am glad it tied actually as my loyalties were divided

Yes when Chris was born his grandfather gave him a gold St. Christopher ( St. Christophers are very popular in England even among the non catholics …but didn’t I read he was no longer a Saint or something like that

Do you know the story of St Christopher? When I read a certain section of his story, it reminds me of your Chris and his suffering here.

I didnt realize Chris was an art director either. He had much (young) success to work on national campaigns so early into his career. That is awesome. I used to work for a big shop, but when I had the kids, I couldnt keep up with 60+ hour work weeks. I work at a smaller shop these days, full service agency with top talent – we have a client in Cleveland. Do you hear Mike Bass Ford spots? That is our agency. I am the media director (not creative) and so I place media on your local Cleveland TV stations.

Ok, gotta jet. I have much cleaning to do during nap time. I hope your having a better Saturday. Glad Gavin’s test results came out well. I’ve been down that “ultrasound” road with the boys and it is absolutely nerve racking. Thank God all is well with the Loraine dude.

Yes Chris won actually three Cleveland Addy awards for his work and he had only been employed for 18 months before he was diagnosed. His boss in her letter to me said that he was poised for great success….As you can see by my latest post the Meinke Commercial that runs on CNN and Jeopardy was one of his contributions, there were a series and he was the art director.
I will be putting up some of his BFA project on Monday as well….

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers and concern as you can see by the latest post Thursday was a terrible experience and I was exhausted emotionally from the trip…

I liked the explanation re confession makes sense thanks

My own husband and many catholics can not fully understand or wrap their heads around confession. I think it is all about humility. It’s kind of like giving your soul a bath. People run around with dingy souls and just like you wouldnt go to a birthday party with soiled gardening clothes (you’d shower, get fresh clothes on), we believe people should clean up their souls (before mass, before communion, before receiving Jesus). Besides all this, you do receive great grace (and feel a lot lighter) after a good confession!! I can attest to this!!!

As for the RC priest, Loraine, I feel as if I missed a part of the story, but didnt want to ask you to re-post if I had missed something. I couldnt follow the part about the priest – what happened – ? I had no idea but obviously, I could tell there was a negative connotation in your post regarding him. I would like to know the story if you have the time and if it isnt too painful to talk about.

One more thing, I am so sorry your day was so terrible. Friday mornings, I usually begin with a 530am rosary (in which you are always mentioned in those rosary intentions) when I go running but the kids and I have both been sick, so I didnt get up (didnt go running) and you guessed it, didnt say my rosary. I feel bad as today was a day you could have used it.

As for support, strangers vs families, oh yes, you arent kidding…some strangers are more supportive than family but in the end, Loraine, we will see that we’re more connected than we even realize in this world…… (and so I’ll end here) so I dont go all philosophical on you. You bring out those sides of me, you know!!!

One more thing, I didnt know Chris won creative awards in advertising. That is my business, as well. I thought that was awesome that he won awards and was so young in the field.

Take care, talk soon.
aylin.

It has been a horrible day and week so far as I had to go back to the Cleveland Clinic today where my son died just six months ago and revisist the whole horrible journey but I survived it ( barely) and will put up the experience Sunday thank you for thinking of me sometimes strangers can be more supportive than “families ”

I recently read (sorry to go all theological on you once again), that we should pray for our children, grandchildren and all future family generations – pray that our sin (or even negative traits and issues – such as the inability to forgive or alcoholism or divorce) is not passed down through the generations. Of course, as catholics, we believe we should go to confession, but even as a Christian, it is important to pray that the qualities we do NOT want to see passed down to those generations to follow us – are not passed down. They said that much sin is passed down this way – it is possible that alcoholism (and some even say homosexuality) is truly passed on through generations – not so much is it a “disease” but addictions truly do follow the family lines until parents pray to rid it from the family line. During the consecration, when we believe Jesus is present, I do ask that His blood protects our future generations from all sin/disease/accidents/evil that was before us and all those that should follow us – from the beginning of the family line to the end. I am hoping to eliminate any unneccessary stress in their lives.

In any event, your post reminded me of this conversation and of a piece I read somewhere along the line.

Never want to bore you, just wanted to poke my head the window (while the kids are napping) and say hello and give you my aylin2cents worth, for whatever it’s worth.

God bless you always. I said one for you this morning. I hope you are having a good week.

and getting sticky and sandy hands and hating being sticky….something that I also noticed is shared by Gavin as we were at Catawba last week…..I hated sticky or sandy hands and so does he apparently……

Mary I agree and I will be writing an article on hands soon and the sharing of …. Loraine