What A Weird Way to Start

On the sweetness of Saint life.

The new YW class presidency speaks.   Each girl starts by talking about her dad before saying a few things of general religious interest.  It is really quite affecting.

The twelve-year old has written down a collection of  her dad’s best dad  jokes.  My favorites is the very Anglo-American “What’s the definition of a dad joke? A joke by a dad” and “Sometimes at church they’ll ask me, ‘Brother X, are you awake?  Are you paying attention?’ and I think, what a weird way to start the lesson.”

The 16-year old thanks her dad for reading Harry Potter so they could talk about it.  She says she hasn’t forgotten her return promise to read the Lord of the Rings.  The 15-year old says her dad kept trying to teach her to ride a bike until she learned.  It took five years.