Baby K Baptism

 Baby K was baptized last Sunday.  We did not attend because of Influenza A that is going around. 

Maddie shared photographs. 

Brenton holding Peach on the far left and Maddie on the far right.

Baby K is wearing the baptismal gown that her brother and sisters wore that is made out of my wedding dress. 

Galatians 3:26-27

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized in Christ have clothed yourself with Christ'

We are have nasty winds and blowing snow...and way below zero windchills.  We are in a Winter Storm warning and a Blizzard watch until late on Sunday.  High was 4F or -16C  Low was -1F or -18C eh.

Supper was leftovers for me...coleslaw, sweet potatoes and some lil smokies.  Far Guy had a Philly Sandwich that Jen brought home from the Blue Moose where she ate lunch.  No cooking!!

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 I had quite a time with the Baptismal gown.  It had some difficult stains.  Finally worked some magic with some bleach  and gave it a good wash and rinse.  I bought a steamer because my iron is so old it would have made yucky spots on it. ( I hardly ever use my iron...I think it is about 40 years old)

The gown is pressed good enough for now...I have had it hanging upstairs and will wrap it in white tissue paper and put it away in the box.  Who knows when it will be used again. 

Cross something off my list! 

I mailed the Christmas Ornaments yesterday so I can cross that off my list too.  The fellow in the Post Office was not real happy when I showed up with 20 packages to mail....he said "How many"  "Today?" and looked at the clock.  It took him about 25 minutes....I showed up well before it was time to close.

Had my last eye exam for awhile...I hope.  Saw a specialist...yes I have secondary cataracts but she doesn't think they are bad enough to laser yet.  My being suspect for glaucoma remains the same.  Right now I am stable. Cross that off my list too. 

A few Christmas ornaments were hand delivered.   Yeah us! 

Far Guy is working diligently on the Christmas card address list updating it and alphabetizing it!  What a trooper...he spent so much time learning a new program on his computer.  He cusses occasionally...

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Baptism

 Our newest Great Granddaughter  Ree ( aka Peach) was baptized on Sunday. 

Isn't she a beauty! 

Maddie and Ree (Peach)

The family photo.

Ree  (Peach) was happy to be held by her Great Grandpa! 

She is immediately calmed by her Great Auntie Jen. 

The baptismal gown was made out of my wedding dress and worn by all three of our Great Grandchildren.

Romans 6: 3-4

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.  

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Cee Cee Baptism Day

  We drove up North.  Our Great Granddaughter Cee Cee was baptized last evening.

The baptismal gown has been packed away in the trunk since it was worn by Great Grandson Hey Mikey for his baptism.  The gown hung in the living room all week.  The cap had blue ribbon but Jen brought some pink ribbon along with her. 

We met Jen, Andy and Cee Cee in the parking lot of the church...everyone else was inside at Mass.  I changed out the ribbon and Jen dressed Cee Cee in the backseat of her vehicle. (luckily it was reasonably warm  40 F)

Jen and I both wore masks...I stayed a distance away and just watched. 

The gown fit just fine.  (Big sigh of relief)  For those of you who don't know...this baptismal gown was made out of my wedding dress....next door neighbor Jo and I made it.

I knew that my big girl camera wouldn't like the dark so I used my cell phone to take a few photos. 

Cee Cee looking at her Great Auntie Jen as if to say "Why are you wearing that mask?"

Jen and Cee Cee 

 

 Saying Hi to Great Grandpa.

Other family members were already in the church.  We did not go inside..we felt that it would be unnecessary exposure for Far Guy.  We left for home as Jen and Andy walked toward the church with Cee Cee.

Andy took a video for us ...so it was almost as good as being there.  The important thing was that she was baptized.  We got to deliver the gown and see her dressed in it. 

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” Matthew 28:19

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Mikey’s Baptism

Yesterday was Mikey’s baptismal day.  The gown fit perfectly.

He liked the feel of the gown and kept putting it in his mouth.

Maddie our Granddaughter and Mikey our Great Grandson

Mikey with his parents.

He was very good during the ceremony, he just looked all around…and kept stuffing the gown in his mouth.

Here you can see how wrinkled the gown was.  I have a bit of fabric left not much but perhaps enough to sew a bib!

I brought the gown home to wash and iron it and to pack it away for the next great grandchild.

This was originally my wedding dress December 20 1969

This repurposed gown was worn by Mikey on October 8 2017 on the ocassion of his baptism.

All sewing was accomplished with the help of my good friend and neighbor JoLynn.

Ongoing Projects: A Gown

For a very long time I have been wanting to do something with my wedding gown.  It is 48 years old this year.  It has been in several different boxes over the years, it finally ended up in the Cedar Chest upstairs. 

I bought a pattern for a long baptismal gown for a baby several years ago.  It has been on my “to do list.”

I finally took it out of hiding on May 31st.

It was very wrinkled.  Far Guy said “shouldn’t you iron it?”

Nah…

I will take a photo of it outside…maybe it will look better.

Nope still wrinkled.  Well I wasn’t going to iron it just for a photo.  After all I was going to throw it into the washer in cold water and hope it would hold together and not be just a bunch of unreconizable threads.

Deep breath.

It worked…it held together..now into the dryer keeping my fingers crossed.

That worked too.  Now to rip out some seams.  I called Jo and said “Got a seam ripper?”  She said “Sure what kind of trouble are you in now?  I will be right over.”

We ripped out seams and pinned the pattern on that first afternoon and cut out all the pieces.  The second afternoon we sewed some of it together.  The third afternoon it was all done except for some by hand stitching. I finished the hand stitching yesterday!  It was an adventure. Niether of us want to do a repeat anytime soon.  Jo is a much better seamstress than I am.

 

It is a baptismal gown and a cap.  I need to get blue ribbon to string in the cap for the ties instead of white.  Far Guy hauled out the ironing board and I pressed the entire gown….my old iron is practically an antique but it worked well enough to get out the wrinkles!

The skirt of my gown was just perfect to make the skirt of the baptismal gown.  I wanted an old fashioned look of a really long gown. 

Hey Mikey your baptismal gown is all done on June 9 2017!

I am so glad this project is done.  Many thanks to Jo for going along this sewing adventure with me!