Being a godparent

Almost 10 months ago my husband and I became godparents to the sweetest little boy (M).  What a great blessing and responsibility, being godparents.  It is not something we wanted to take lightly.  At M's baptism we promised to help his parents bring him up in our Catholic faith.  Now, our friends (M's parents) are strong in their faith.  They are a good Catholic couple, so our job isn't that hard but I don't want to be lazy.  It is important to me, and my husband that our godson always know we are there for him.  He doesn't live too far away, but far enough that we can't see him as often as we'd like.  So, I started asking myself what we could do for M so he knows we are always here.


I wanted to do something that has to do with our faith, something creative.  So, I asked my mom, who is a teacher. She suggested we do something with the saints. After brainstorming with my husband we decided that once a month we would send a letter to M telling him about a saint, a new one every month.  So, this month, being Valentines day we sent him his 1st letter telling him about St. Valentine.

So, I finally found something fun, creative and educational to help my growing godson.  I'm so very excited to continue. The hard part is picking the saints, there are so many amazing ones!


(<a screen shot of the letter)

i'm back!

3 months and 1 baby later, I'm back! I'm a mommy now.  Let me tell you, what a joy! My husband and I are the proud parents of a sweet little baby boy.  Well, maybe not little, he is a hefty "little" guy.  He was almost 10 lbs at birth and he is 14lbs now (at 3 months).  We just love our little chunker.

 Being a mom is everything I expected and more.  It is also a little scary.  I'm a worry wart.  Now, our little guy is an incredibly mellow baby.  In 3 months he has maybe had a serious cry 3 times (not including when he had his shots). We were even able to take him on an airplane at 2 months and he didn't cry once on the 4 hour flight.  He is just not a fussy baby.  So those few times when he is fussy, I always think there is something seriously wrong.  Usually its just a case of needing a diaper change or he wants to be facing out.  As new parents, we learn. 

In 3 months, our boy has learned to smile, giggle, hold his head up, babble (he doesn't stop) and pick up toys (thats a recent one).  In 3 months my husband and I have learned to eat fast, duck when changing diapers and the pacifiers aren't as evil as we once thought. 

We are looking forward to the next years, and even bough a zoo pass for this year! 

3  cheers for parenting! More to come. Praise God for little ones!