As a courtesy to those who visit this site regularly, soon you will notice that I’m scaling back on content to better focus on ongoing projects. Just wanted to put that out there in case you’re wondering whether I’ve disappeared permanently, especially after the crickets start chirping on itcatholicmom.net.

Yes, just like in those old Looney Tunes cartoons. You know the ones - with Daffy Duck & Bugs Bunny and the cricket chirping audience?

Those kinds.

Last night was huge in the way of performing arts, and Catholic Girlie and I had a big taste of music mastery that will go down in the history books. Together we attended this concert that was described in local reviews as ‘exquisite as Fodor’s violins’ which left us mystified as we sat glued to our seats for over 2 hours. Never before had we witnessed such a dazzling performance, or had we been in the same room with musical instruments valued at over $20 million. And that’s not a typo - $20,000,000.

Talk about unworthiness, we should’ve finished the night with a big Buddha stretch in honor of it all. It was just that amazing.

I will be the first to admit that the very thought of being a catechist for 6th graders literally scared the living daylights right out of me when I grudgingly signed up for the job last spring. My thinking was that the sweet little innocent faces of previous years would be no more at the middle school level. Instead, I pictured myself looking out into a classroom of sinister faces attached to bodies that were almost as tall as, if not taller, than me as they chucked stones at my head while I attempted to teach Catholic stuff to them. And I’m not into painful teaching experiences. Not in this lifetime, anyway. But I digress.

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While I’ve been running around like the Energizer Bunny doing the daily drive-kids-to-school-shuffle and the teach-2-ccd-classes-simultaneously, I’ve collected notes on certain things-that-must-be-blogged in the process. Stay tuned to read more about blasphemous behavior in which we deal with Jesus’ butt and my newly proclaimed age: 22.

Back soon. Blogging about it all, of course.