Sunday Sunday Sunday oh Sunday…. You come so fast every week what am I ever going to do? I think you’re tricking me and it’s actually only Sunday the 26th of January. It must be because there’s no way it’s the 18th of May. I mean May! No way can it be May. I was just getting told of Grace’s first communion and now she’s off to church doing her second. You crazy crazy Sunday. I don’t know why you can’t just stay away and let me live in the week! Monday came around and we were all exhausted after the weekend in Woodstown. We even went to bed with no Breaking Bad episodes. Tuesday came which was a little better as we were rested up. Not as much screaming or fighting with the girls either 🙂 When Wednesday arrived we were in full swing planning for the communion. To-do lists written out, hair planned, outfits bought, and the next two days or preparing. Thursday showed up and I went and got my hair done…blonde which is millions of times better than my black I once possessed. I actually do love it and is a perfect summer blonde color. A little outside work in the backyard when I got back and even got in some breaking bad. Then Friday, Friday transpired and we were scampering everywhere. Eleanor and I both took the days off to prep, cook, and stock up. We dropped the girls off and then away we went to Tesco, Aldi, Supervalue, Centra, and a couple places in between. We got home and it was already time to collect the girls since they got done at 12. We abandoned the three of them at their Nanny’s house so we could all preparations without distractions. 70 Oreo truffles, 80 scotcheroos, 40 cupcakes, a cream cake, some jello(which they call jelly), and 12 dirt cups later and we were finished with the desserts. A few other bits and pieces and we could sit down out the back with some homeade pizza made by myself 🙂 A little but more Breaking Bad and we went to bed to be rejuvenated for the long awaited Saturday. Saturday finally presented itself and we had a day full of celebrations. Hair done, makeup done, dresses on(well except for Paul who had his really “fancy” clothes on) and we departed to the church. An hour of mass and the first communion was completed. Next on the list: pictures. Eleanor has a friend, who is also Olivia’s play school teacher, that has a lovely venue for taking pictures. We got pictures taken and sat around with some tea, coffee, and biscuits. After that we(17 of us) went to a restaurant for dinner. A steak or chicken later and we were off again. Back to the house we went to put some finishing touches around the house before everyone came. All our homemade desserts, bags of sweets, crisps, dips, peanuts, chicken goujans(really just chicken strips but they like to put some fancy name on them), sausages, and duck rolls displayed around the lot. People came and the came and they came and a few left and then a few more came. They ate and ate and ate and drank and then ate some more then drank quite a bit more(this being Ireland and all there was a rather large consumption of alcohol). Music was played, songs were sung, dances were danced, and everyone was happy, very, very happy. The weather was absolutely brilliant with sun all day and only a little wind in the afternoon. The evening settled down and we sat outside until wee hours of the night. Everyone keeps asking me if I’m planning to come back here and visit but really that isn’t the question for me. The question is just when I’m coming back and how I plan to pay for it while I’m in college. My plan is to come back for Grace’s confirmation. 5 years and I could be back here! Hopefully (fingers crossed). Today I’m going to Tramore for a last little get together at Bernie’s. Maybe a dinner paid for by Grace tonight 🙂 she is a rich woman now! Makes me think I should have my own first communion then maybe I could have money to get back here! 😉 What can I say? I love Ireland! I hope everyone has a great day and week! I’m sure I’ll see a lot of you in just a couple more.
