NFP #1

Monday afternoon, we arrived at the Diocesan Pastoral Center for our first out of four Natural Family Planning classes.  There were 6 other couples, some were already married, while most were engaged.  Our instructors are two elderly individuals who has been married for over 40 years, one a retired scientist and the other a retired math teacher.  With 4 adult children, they spent their time teaching NFP and Marriage prep classes as well as traveling.  They just came back from two weeks vacation in Hawaii... man... that's the life! 

 

The whole process was pretty interesting, it started with a review of anatomy and then we went into learning about the sympto-thermal method.  Overall, it's quite a commitment on the woman's part, she has to take body temperature every morning as well as chart observations daily.  The men are only there for moral and emotional support... Our next class is in two weeks!

For being so good, Dave and I rewarded ourselves with macha green tea and popcorn chicken after wards... nom-nom-nom!

 

Church - BOOKED!

The last few weeks has been pretty busy for both Dave and I.

I had IEP meetings up the wazzoo the whole month of March.   

Dave was sick a couple of weeks ago, as well as started on his 2nd part time job.  He did a huge data transfer (I dunno if this is the actual IT term) but regardless he's been working basically two 40 hours jobs.

Ever since our meeting with Father Michael who told us the church we were considering was EHH.  We haven't had any time to go look at any other locations.  Due to the Otay Shooting this morning, Dave's school was closed since it was only a few blocks away.  Luckily no one else was injured but it gave us some time to run much needed errands.

In the afternoon, we decided to continue our search for a church.  Dave had emailed me weeks earlier with a few church possibilities, I checked out their websites but nothing jumped out so I just pushed it aside.  Since we haven't found the a church for our wedding ceremony, we decided to take a look at these possibilities in person.  To my surprise, the first church we stopped at was like love at first sight for both Dave and I.  The view from the church parking lot is beautiful! you can see the entire west side of San Diego.  Inside was a perfect balance of wood ceiling (thumbs up from Dave) and beautiful stained glass windows (two thumbs up from Marilyn).    

I felt like we were reading the scripts from Goldilocks and the 3 bears: "it wasn't too big, it wasn't too small, it was just right, everything was just right"  Dave said this is IT within 10 seconds of walking through the doors.   We decided to go to the parish office and get for more info on how to reserve the date.  Since we are non-parishioners, Diane the secretary said our priest need to have a conversation with Father Steve before she can give us the paperwork.  We called Father Michael immediately and left him a voicemail, saying we found THE church and if he can get in touch with Father Steve so we can put down our deposit to save the date.  A few minutes later, Father Michael called us back saying he spoke with Diane and everything is good.  We asked him how he felt about our choices and he said it's perfect, not because he was bias or anything but he was the assistant pastor there 15 years ago.  How funny is that?  Everything seems to just fall into place, it's as though all the puzzle pieces is already there and we just have to put it in the right spot.      

We called Diane back and she wrote us into her book, we'll put a deposit down and get the paperwork in the next couple of days.  YAY! we just booked our church.