May Crowning and Procession

Our children's choir, which currently is all girls, sang beautifully for the Mass, which took place on Mother's Day. Nothing better than celebrating our one True Mother in Heaven!

Mass with the Bishop and Science Fair

 We were blessed to have a lovely Mass with our Bishop to end our formal homeschooling year of activities. It began with a presentation of flowers to our Lady.


We had an awesome group of altar boys that did a fantastic job.

 Following the Mass, the Bishop enrolled those who wished to be enrolled in the brown scapular.  We were down to Bilbo for his enrollment.

 Following the Mass there was a year-end science fair.  Sam did an awesome project making some 10 windmills to study... umm... something-over-my-head.  I asked why he didn't bring a scale model of his project to which both Aragorn and Sam laughed at me and said this was the scale model.  Oh.

 The children present had a great time trying to spin it fast enough to light a lightbulb.

 Frodo did a project on bees and their swarming and hiving activities.


The project by a young lady cracked me up... have been at the "old campus" in college I learned to be an expert toilet plunger.  (no that was not my degree!)

 Ok, I was so disappointed I was hasty and got a nice blurry picture as this was so precious of the teenage brother carrying his baby sister in a pack.  Don't you love that?

 This is why I hesitate to send my husband to pick up anything that involves food.  We had planned a nice shrimp newburg dinner to which he brought home, also, some baby octopus. I know some people who perhaps might salivate at the sight of cooked octopus, but I had to pass on this delicacy.  Expectant women do get some say in what they are capable of eating at any given moment!!

 We've had some very lovely spring days lately and the tulips budded... and bloomed....

 There was a sheep shearing done last night to which this is the before picture.....

 And this is the after picture.  So... if anyone knows what to do with some very thick, very heavy, very, lanolin-y sheep wool, better make a comment quickly.  Anyone know how to clean it?!

Corpus Christi Procession

Saint Juliana, from her early youth, had a great veneration for the Blessed Sacrament, and always longed for a special feast in its honor. This desire is said to have been increased by a vision of the Church under the appearance of the full moon having one dark spot, which signified the absence of such a solemnity. 
Catholic Encyclopedia

We had a lovely procession in honor of Corpus Christi....... our procession was unique and special in that it happened between the Ordinary and Extra Ordinary Forms of the Mass.  We are all one in Christ.  The pictures speak for themselves.....

On our way home we noticed a very amazing spectacle and surprise.  I'm sure it had nothing to do with one of the very awesome Knights of Columbus who was in our beautiful procession who happens to live right next door.....  but that this little guy miraculously appeared in the night! :D

And one little funny for the procession.  While the Ordinary Form of the Mass was going on the rest of us to join in the procession met in the basement. I got myself all set up with the Moby Wrap to carry Marigold in the procession.  Suddenly it was time for us choir members to go up and get moving into the procession, I got to the top of the church stairs and realized I had forgotten the baby in the basement (another reason for good marriages is that if one forgets the baby the other picks up the slack).  So I had to run back down to the basement and get her.  If you don't know what a Moby Wrap is envision about a dozen feet of fabric that you wind up around your body and then strategically rearrange the baby's arms and legs inside the whole works.  If you have used a Moby Wrap (which is awesome for carrying babies for long periods of time), you will know that this isn't something you want to mess with when you are in a panic!  So while I was trying to get up into this procession, sing and put the baby into this contraption... and take a few pictures at the same time, I had to remove her 3 times. It was a most absurd situation. Fortunately the procession only improved from that point! :)  Incidentally... thankfully, I have 1 special gift... I can multi-task... to the max! :D