A good day for kitchen activities: Mom showed Sunshine how to bake her most excellent homemade brownies. After that, I came along and made kani maki sushi for everybody. All day long, Paul had a pot roast in the crock pot that made for an excellent dinner. (I was not sure Sunshine would go for pot roast, but she has declared it to be her most favorite dish ever.)

In the evening, I had Catholic School… Catechism. This evening I learned how to stay awake during boring sermons — a must for any true Catholic. I was serious when I said that the first hour-long presentation I had 2 weeks ago was very interesting. However tonight’s lecture was an hour-and-45-minute exegesis on the role of confession and absolution in Catholicism. It was one of those talks that could have been given in 10 or 15 minutes if certain assumptions about the intelligence of the audience had been made, if certain tangents had not been explored… forced to have been explored by repeated and rather tedious “what if” questions asked by one earnest lady in the back, and if the evening’s lecturer had simply been willing to speak Faster. Than. One. Word. Per. Second.

Sigh. It’s for my Sunshine that I suffer.

To be honest, I’m not sure Sunshine appreciates that I’m becoming a Catholic for her. She really doesn’t do church much. When I ask her to go to church with me, I can tell she really would prefer not to (usually by her, “No! Arggh! Oh alright.” answers to my invitations). But I figure that in the long run, for various reasons that Sunshine cannot see at this point (and I can only barely see myself), having me be a member of the Catholic church will be to our mutual benefit. Besides, I’m sure at some level, Sunshine appreciates the effort.