Thomas' Christening!

 

On Sunday, August 23, Thomas became a full-fledged Catholic!  Despite the oppressive heat and humidity, family and friends braved the Sunday I-95 traffic to travel multiple hours (each way) to celebrate the occasion.  The ceremony was at St. Patrick Church in Mystic, CT followed by a lunch at chez O'Rourke.  Not a peep was made out of Thomas during the entire ceremony.  What a good boy even in his long dress (okay, I admit this is the only day I get to pretend I have daughters and can put them in a beautiful smocked dress.)

Thank you everyone for coming and making it a special day!  Especially those that traveled several hours to and from our house for the day.  Thank you to Godfather Sean and Godmother Missy, who did everything in her power to not getting sick on Thomas despite the migraine she dealt with all morning on her birthday no less. Not only did she trek up to the house for the event, but she made it down in record time to catch a flight the same day to London for a day-long meeting.  Rock star!

A most special thank you to Vovo (FYI - that's Portuguese for "grandmother") Helen for helping me prepare the food, table, arranging beautiful bouquets and a lot of the preparation in the weeks beforehand -- planting flowers, trees, weeding, (doing an assortment of other things I didn't know needed done) and generally getting the house in tip-top condition.