holy crap

so...baby is definitely on her way. we feel like she wants to come early. so we're trying to do as much as we possibly can to prepare for her arrival.

as good catholic children, we know that we want our baby baptized. the problem there is that we don't really go to church every weekend...or any weekend? so, yeah, maybe we aren't necessarily "good catholic children" per se, but we try. so for months (basically since baby was conceived), we have been saying, "we need to register at church so we can get the baby baptized. usually this was stated while we were walking past our church on the way to a restaurant. oops.

so, finally, we had a free sunday yesterday and went to annunciation bvm for 11:30 (not too early, thank god. literally.) mass and registered afterward. and it was so easy. i really expected problems, or a sit down with the priest. but it was so easy. and now we're official. oh, and there was a baptism during mass yesterday, so it was perfect. and awesome, because the baby's name was giovanni nicholas. i love you, south philly.

but who know you had to go through a pre-cana of sorts to baptize a baby!?!i forget what the lady called it. but she talked about it. ugh. so we not only have to go to church, but we have to take some random class to tell us how to raise baby catholic. interesting.

in the end, it's probably all good. i guess it's time for me to grow up and be a good parent. we'll never be the people who go to church every sunday and go to the numerous chruch functions, but it's nice to know that community is there.

amen.