Today was an extremely long, grueling day. Started the morning off with an early morning workout with a friend. Worked from home and took a break to stop by the church for a meeting with the priest to discuss some upcoming events and getting our marriage blessed. Jason will be officially confirmed Catholic on Saturday’s Easter Vigil. We will receive communion, with the understanding to have our marriage recognized and blessed shortly after in the next week or so. We met with Father Andy at the Parish office. Had a nice discussion. I felt at ease with the process, although we are doing everything backwards. It is not intentional, with the military lifestyle it is east to get off track. Never settling in one spot, constantly up-ending your life and family for new orders. For the first time in a long time, I feel welcomed to an amazing community.

After our meeting with the Priest, Jason and I had a date of sorts to the car wash, and picked up Sammy’s at Wawa. Very romantic, yes. I enjoyed his company, we spent time together, not worrying about this or that. I worked the latter half of the day, on the phone and answering emails from my little home office nook. After the kiddos were home from school I took them to try on some new shoes for church at the mall. The girls were completely off the chain. Running here and there, hitting each other playfully with their socks. Chasing each other throughout the store and up and down the escalators. I did my best to maintain my sanity, doing the I’m calling daddy game that proved to be ineffective. Finally I convinced them to sit criss cross applesauce on the floor and to sit still for five minutes while I checked out. I survived the shopping excursion…barely.

We ended the day with getting to the fields for my solo run of coaching Lacrosse. I worked with the girls on defense, footwork, transitions and conditioning. It was a tough day, but overall I was happy when I could be home, relaxing on the couch as I type this. The girls crawled into bed and Jason and I continue to have a nice evening of conversation on history, movies and great music. I am happy that while the day proved to be very exhausting and even though as a family we enter the Catholic Church at easter haphazardly, we do so together. Not that everything is perfect. There is a lot of steps towards and backwards. But either way it appears to be in the right direction.

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