Pru was baptized on Sunday (Epiphany) afternoon at our parish just after the noon Mass. We were touched that so many family, friends and blogging notables were able to be in attendance. She was angelic almost the whole time (even during a pretty extensive photo session afterwards) and quickly calmed down when she became agitated. It was a beautiful event. Grandpa Shields was kind enough to record the ceremony on his digital camera:
Obviously, we were a bit… occupied… during the baptism itself and didn’t take photographs of our own (though Aunt NELLIE did a great job with our camera) so consider this a call for photos if you took any. We’d love to see what you captured.
Dwyeropolis 
Great media of the event taken by all!! Thank you for sharing it with everyone that was unable to attend, escpeccially the Youtub broadcast, very smart.
Pru looked beautiful. Regards, the entire Gagarin family.
Hi
I picked up the disc yesterday at the film store with all the photos from my digital camera. Dad is planning to mail to you today since not sure wehn we will see you next.
G. Eileen
So .um ..we LOVE them! I guess we are not so camera shy after all cgnarots to you on being one of the few people who’s actually been able to get pictures of us without us pulling faces! You are awesome! We are soooooo excited for the wedding now!
I love how you mix vibrant corlos with strong black and white work. These two look so much in love, and it’s refreshing to see shots where the couple aren’t eating each other’s faces.
Thankyou for commenting. I’m relaly sorry that your advice wasn’t listened to; that is such a shame because your experience was so important. It does raise an issue that I’ve experienced too. We’ve had some teachers who have been brilliant and who have done their best to help my son and daughter but like you their experience wasn’t listened to by the next teachers. And unfortunately when we’ve had the not so good teachers that is when things have fallen apart, a bit like the boy in your school. I also felt that the teachers weren’t always supported themselves. I remember one of my daughter’s teachers picking up on her learning difficulties quite early on in primary school but the SENCO did nothing to provide the additional support the teacher wanted. And so my daughter struggled and struggled until such point she couldn’t cope any more. Now we have a statement of SEN for her and we’re in the process of looking for a school with specific ASD support. Anyway, hopefully your experience will never be wasted because if you have any other pupils with similar difficulties you can always draw on what you’ve learnt and I’m sure future parents will be relaly grateful for that. As for Monday, yes I’ve refused and explained that I will work on helping my daughter to adjust and prepare for the change in her own time. They’ve appear to have accepted this so fingers crossed we can have a smooth transition. Deb x
I really enyoejd reading this post! As usual, I found your words challenging and stimulating.I agree with the shades of grey thinking except I believe in a few absolute truths (or black and whites). My first absolute truth is: Good is Good. Simple, but I feel limited by our language in finding another word to describe God. He is everything Good (Love, Peace, Greatness .)My second absolute truth is: It is wrong to needlessly harm innocents. The word needlessly is where the shades of gray come into play for that black and white truth.Those are the only black and white truths I have of course, the gray scale is still necessary because of our own limited language. PS I’m curious about the box you put Catholicism in .