Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Summer is offically here!

Birthday Tradition

First Communion

This past Sunday, Megan made her First Holy Communion. A lot of preparation goes into the event -- religiously, months of focus lessons in her religion classes (and at home) and a retreat at church. There are also some non-religious prep -- outfit shopping, party planning, banner making and in our case doll dress construction. This may sound odd, but last year a friend of mine had a dress made for her daughter's First Communion and the leftover material was made into a dress for her American Girl Doll (actually the story is much better than that -- she used her wedding dress as the material for daughter and doll dresses). Anyway, Megan knew the story and she also wanted a dress for her doll. I did not make her (Megan's) dress, but thought I could make a similar one for her doll -- actually was not as difficult as I thought. The veil, on the other hand, was a little crazy and was pleased when I found a little cross charm that my neighbor made into a necklace for the doll.

Megan really seemed to like it. I was worried that other aspects of the day (clothes, dolls, parties) would take over the day, but I think Megan did a good job focusing on the religious importance of the day. We were blest with beautiful weather and that family was able to gather with us to celebrate.