Tuesday, 17 February 2009

A Big Day

Ivy Elisabeth Clare was Baptised on Sunday the fifteenth of February and Violet Grace Lucille had the remainder of her ceremonies.  It was a really lovely day.

Thank you to everyone for helping out with the liturgy and the celebrations.  Thanks especially to Father Hugh and Deacon Jim for the beautiful Mass, to all the musicians who worked very hard (especially considering the very late notice I gave them...), to Ailsa's brothers for ushering and sorting the chapel out, to Daffy, Marianne, John and Auntie 'mary for keeping their promises to be good Godparents (so far, so good), to Janet and Francis K. for Eucharistic Ministering (and for baking five billion amazing cakes), to all our guests (who brought another few trillian cakes), to Charlotte, Daffy and Marianne for cleaning until the place was crumbless and to our families who've been fantastic and without whom, we'd be seriously stuck.  Thanks for all your presents, cards, best wishes, hugs, kisses and prayers.  Violet and Ivy have been far too spoilt with everyone's love and affection, but they certainly deserve it.

PHOTOGRAPHS
If anyone has any photographs of the Baptism which they would be willing to share on this blog, please email them to one of us: almachius@gmail.com and ailsawalton@gmail.com  Thank you.

P.S. To those of you who noticed the trend of my girls to take it in turns to cry during the Baptism (but only when being held by their father), I'm pleased to point out that this is in fact a phenomenon of quantum mechanics (or so we've been told by Great Uncle Andrew) and is therefore nothing to do with my failure as a parent (or my beard, as one guest suggested).

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