wedding shower

We've been busy lately getting addresses of friends and family for Elise's wedding shower, which will be held at Jo's on October 14th. Other than that, Elle has a new pair of jazz/hip hop shoes that she's wearing for the first time tonight. She loves them. She now dances twice weekly, 2 hours plus a class. This is a recital year, so we'll have our hands full in May with costumes. We've been doing this since 1988 when Elise was 4, in her first recital, so at least I know what to expect. Even so, it's always tons of planning and rehearsing. Tomorrow, I have a full day at Holy Family, which includes a Health and Wellness meeting, with the topic being whether or not we need a parish nurse, and hospital visits to the sick and new mothers, which is always an interesting and fun time for me. (About the parish nurse...many might say, well of course you need one, and I agree, but our pastoral care ministry currently does a lot of what the parish nurses would do, and with the new church, there are budgeting issues, so we need to talk and make some decisions.) Today I visited Stan for a few hours, and prepared some waxed beans and beets from the garden. Stan's excited to attend the "Books between Bites" program of local authors tomorrow. It features the author of "Ordinary Sisters, Congregation of the Sisters of St. Agnes," Margaret Lorimer. She was an english professor of mine at Marian in 1984. The book is wonderful. It's a detailed history of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes. It has a great deal of local history described also.