Home Schooling Stuff
Today we had a "field trip day." At noon we attended Mass at Historic St. Mary's Church in downtown Albany. This Church is absolutely beautiful. It would have been great except during the Gospel, Fastolph proclaimed "my pee pee's coming out. It's coming out now." My husband who is on vacation this week, went through the Church looking for the bathroom and found it was off the altar. The priest was not happy at all!
We packed a picnic lunch for the park. I packed sushi, and the kids and I pigged out on sushi,wasabi peas and carrot sticks. The kids thought sushi was great until they saw one of the other families had a whole Freihoffer's chocolate cake. When they were offered cake, the kids ran over with pathetic looks on their faces. The look was "Starving Children".
Afterwards we lobbied over home schooling regulations with the Protestant home schooling group. The speakers were all Protestant and afterwards one came up to us, asked us where we attended Church. When we mentioned we were Catholic (there are tow St. Peter's one Episcopal and one Catholic), he told us how much he is working to see inter-faith discussion or something. It was odd because I never met someone who is Protestant and said "Oh, you are Protestant. Well that is OK. We are trying to work with Protestants more and more." I realise I am not adequately putting into words how odd it was when we mentioned we were Catholic.
We then went to The New York State Museum and looked at, um, stuff. You know, stuff in a museum.
No April 29, 2003 could be complete though without Free Ice Cream from Ben and Jerry's! After dessert we came home and had dinner. I am beat.
