Oh. My. God.

This morning I thought, "Wow!  Things seem to be going really smoothly lately!  How nice!"

That is a very stupid thing for airforcewife to do.  Very stupid. 

You see, after the latest move we had to switch from a base chapel to a regular Catholic parish.  I'm still having a hard time with the switch - there aren't any uniforms in the pews on Sundays, for one.  Also, there isn't an understanding of some of the issues.  I kind of feel like an outsider.  Also, our new church is HUGE.  And I like that at the chapel they knew us, and we knew everyone.

Well, as if that wasn't issue enough - today my second daughter was altar serving Good Friday mass.

She puked.

She was holding the bible and she puked. 

Not ON the bible - she handed (threw?) that to the priest during his prayer and ran out of the church puking all the way.

The poor kid.

And I'm seriously not helping much because I can't stop laughing.

I hope she doesn't get a complex about this...   

Comments

[Shanna]

AFW, Poor kid. It's hard not to laugh, but hopefully it didn't cause any lasting scars! I laughed through my Grandmother's entire Catholic memorial service because my 5 month old was releasing some VERY stinky gas while in my arms. My grandma would have loved it and been laughing with me.

[Christine]

That's hilarious. Obviously I wouldn't find it funny if I was your daughter! Poor thing!

You might want to check out some other parishes. I grew up in the DC area, and we found that so many of the parishes there have a quite a large number of military retirees and active duty members.

[Penny]

Aww.. poor girl.. but I am trying to hold back the giggles. I am curious about one thing though.. did the priest catch the bible? hehe.. It's so wrong of me to laugh about this.. ^_~

[airforcewife]

Luckily, yes he did catch it. Whew!

We can't switch churches now, though, because we're too far from a base to attend chapel and there aren't very many churches in the area that allow girls to altar serve.

We already made a big ruckus at the bishop's office once in the last year to find a place she could altar serve... I doubt they want to hear my name around there any time again soon!

[Linda]

I passed out while holding the bible once....it was a HUGE bible, on a big metal and plastic holder...and I was short...and the priest was tall and he wanted it held UP HIGH (they should have considered that when they put me head server that day)...so I held it up...and up...and up....and my knees got wobbly, and I mumbled "oh, Sh**" and the microphone picked it up, and down I went....destroying the holder, the spine of the bible, and almost knocking the priest over.

fun.