Die Buchwalds

Time to start thinking about CHRISTMAS, folks. Don’t believe me? Ask your favorite retailers… they’re getting started already. I’m sure dear Wally World is starting to make room in the garden department!
Matt has the whole day off today. I wanted to go to the local amusement park (no, not Kennywood, silly people, the LOCAL park, Waldameer) today, but it’s supposed to storm off & on all day and who wants to deal with that while trying to ride roller coasters?
Instead, we’re going to head to the local “big mall” (good ol’ Mill Creek) and get a head start on Christmas. My hope is that most of the last minute back to school purchases have been made & we can shop with limited distractions.
I’m feeling the Catholic Guilt kicking in about shopping on a Sunday. Perhaps today should be the day that dh learns how to pray the Rosary. It’s something he’s going to have to learn sooner or later, especially if he’s going to go on the March with me in January, and I think it would be a wonderful thing to do on “long” car trips. Lately, if it’s not somewhere right in town, every car trip is a “long” car trip. Even on the trip to our parents’ houses, I can get in two sets of mysteries.
Time to get ready for Mass! (pray for me! in our new parish, everyone stands too much & kneels too little… that’s another entry for another day, though)

P.S. You know you’ve moved way to far north when ERIE is the “local” stuff and Pittsburgh is “far away”! I have to admit that Erie is really probably only 20 minutes closer, depending on where you want to go.

Posted in Catholicism,Life,Travels | By Amy at 8:50 am | Comments(0)