Sunday was a lovely day! First let me back track and say that Friday night we had the priest from our church come over to our house to talk about having Manny baptized. It was a surprisingly refreshing conversation about faith, our beliefs, and also what and why we want for him to be baptized. There is more to elaborate on, but for now we will just say that I think we may end up doing a baptism/welcoming ceremony and we need to decide on how to do that.
So fast forward to Sunday. We got up early (early with the time change) and headed for church. It was the first time that we (me and Jose) were in complete synch with our feelings about attending the service. We both were kind of happy to go and did not mind taking the couple hours out of our Sunday morning at all. The service was nice (I guess) because I had to spend most of the time in the back of the church with Manny while he walked all around exploring. Ava went to the Sunday school that takes place during the service which makes things so nice. The teachers then bring the children into the service at the very end and then we headed over to the hall for the after church reception. There are a lot of families that we know that attend this parish so it is already a welcoming comfortable feeling. The kids played with a ton of other children and we ended up chatting for so long that we were one of the last to leave.
As we came home, my parents had just pulled up in the drive way and came to visit. They always bring the dog and the kids love to see them as well as we do. They love to play with the dog and we had some good conversations about our morning.
I had laid down on the couch while my dad and Jose watched a little exhibition game with the Red Sox and I totally fell asleep and took a nice little power nap.
My parents left soon after and Manny took a 3 hour nap that afternoon. When he woke up we went for a bike ride down to the beach. FREEDOM! It was so great to be able to have Manny in the bike trailer (he is finally big enough) and Ava rode her bike with Jose pulling up the rear. When we got to the beach, the kids played at the playground and it was a beautiful day. We came home, had dinner, put the kids to bed, Jose made a nice fire and we watched "The Town". Because of the time change, i was able to stay awake to see the whole movie and I really enjoyed it. This made Jose very happy because we never get to see anything together for one reason or another and he loves movies so much.
All and all it was a really great day. Amazing. Because we are on break, it felt like we had a normal life doing a normal Sunday thing and that he wasn't tied to his job or had to rush home to grade papers or anything. A nice break from the routine.
Looking forward to the nice weather and more bike rides. I love taking it slow right now. This is the last break before summer and once the students return it goes so fast.
Enjoy the good weather.
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