Fifty-seven

As has been mentioned before, we live where we live mostly because of something our college friends started, which we simply call "The Rosary Group". It never got a cooler name than that, and now it's so entrenched in our minds that it's not likely to change. The idea is that we are forming community, starting with people inviting other fairly like-minded people to bring their family and pray the Rosary on Wed. nights in each other's homes, snacks usually included, potluck style. About two years ago, we got too big to fit anymore, so now there are three rotating groups and a fourth stationary group which is in the north end of town. We keep inviting families and it is really fun. Praying is very important, and a way to support each other, but there are side benefits we never anticipated. One of them is that these people are often more like family than our own families are. Our kids don't have many cousins, and they all live in CA. But these kids are like cousins. If anyone has a baby, and emergency, loses a job, etc, we are all there to help and often good things happen. We bring food, we find work, we babysit each other's kids like crazy. Our family's chiropractor shares four of the families, and he thinks we're all going to form a commune. He's sort of a leftover hippie, not Catholic, but he thinks it's great what we do, which is very open-minded of him, considering that we invade his very small office and take up a lot of time.

Anyway, today one of our members updated the list, in order to reflect all the pregnancies and newborns. There are 57 children, outside and inside the womb. Three are in foster care, so that could change the numbers, but otherwise, as of the holiday season, that's how many kids there are. That's not counting adults.
I'll be posting at least one Halloween picture, and one All Saint's Day picture, because we'll be dressing up for both. We have the coolest families!

Talk about Catholic Community Services... :)

Yay US!