{"id":813,"date":"2008-10-12T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/annas-baptism\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:11:07","slug":"annas-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/annas-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna&#8217;s Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/anna\/20081012_baptism_gown.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/anna\/20081012_baptism_gown-thumb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"270\" alt=\"20081012_baptism_gown.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>Today we baptised Anna.  Denis&#8217; sister Mary and her husband Lou agreed to be her Godparents, and so everyone gathered at the 9:30 mass to celebrate with us.  I was very surprised that Anna didn&#8217;t scream about having water poured over her head (she <em>hates<\/em> having her hair washed!) or having the chrism smeared in her hair.  She did make up for it by screaming through the pictures we tried to take after, though.<\/p>\n<p>We had a nice little party in the banquet room of a local restaurant after, and Carrie had a blast running around with her cousins and her friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have a hard time washing Anna&#8217;s hair.  I love how the chrism oil smells.  (Just looked it up.  It&#8217;s olive oil scented with balsam that&#8217;s been blessed by the bishop.)<\/p>\n<p>Anna did not wear her big sister&#8217;s christening gown, as it was long sleeved and velvet (and it was 70+ degrees today, so it&#8217;s a good thing we didn&#8217;t try to use it anyway!)  Instead, my mom knit her the most beautiful beaded lace gown out of a cotton\/bamboo blend yarn.  It is truly lovely, and I hope someday Anna has a daughter of her own who will wear it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we baptised Anna. Denis&#8217; sister Mary and her husband Lou agreed to be her Godparents, and so everyone gathered at the 9:30 mass to celebrate with us. I was very surprised that Anna didn&#8217;t scream about having water poured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}