[Editing to clarify: It was my much more sensible co-catechist who proposed we do the journals. Needed to give credit for brilliance where it really belongs. I was too chicken to mention it myself.]
Peeking in to say an enormous thank you to Dorian Speed, whose Journal thing we copied wholesale with the 5th graders. First night of class. Went beautifully — kids had something to focus on during those first fifteen minutes of class when everyone is still trickling in, and for me as a catechist it was a privilege to have this way of connecting to each student. Our choices for topics were:
1) What’s on your mind this week?
2) What prayer requests do you have for us?
3) What questions would you like answered this year in Religious Ed.
I will concede we’ve been spoiled — pretty much someone stacked our class with all the best kids. (Well, okay, I looked at the roll and the other 5th grade class got some of the best kids too.) Once again proving my end-of-year fear wrong: I always wonder how my next year’s class can possibly hold up to the standard set by the current year. But they do. Every time. Man I love that job.
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H/T to Domenico Bettinelli for this happy little video:
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Upcoming on the blog:
-I owe you my review of the St. Francis DVD from Tiber River. Draft is on my PC, waiting for me to do a final edit and stick in the necessary links. Coming soon.
-Still reading The Salvation Controversy by Jimmy Akin. (That’s my current Catholic Company review title.) So far it’s a recommended read, if you are the target audience. I have a spare copy, btw, if you are local and a real-life friend and would like to borrow it. A spare because, of course, I lost the first one, and had to order a replacement. I assume that was all part of the Divine Will. In a chaos-redeemed kind of way.
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Foot news: No change. Getting about 20 min/day of walking out of it, and then it’s all over. More or less, depending on everything else. Have a call in to the referral lady to get an appointment with the foot guy.
–> Discovered that my girls can be very helpful and cooperative in the grocery store when I actually need them to be. (Well, Squeaky just likes to ride in my lap.) So that’s nice. Taught Aria about unit pricing. Been a little overwhelmed other wise, and must tell you that my attention to blogging responsibilities is about representative of the rest of my life. Ah. Go watch that video again.