Wedding Necklace

Three down, seventy seven more to go. Grammie Linda and Papa Nick gave Elizabeth a very pretty three pearl necklace for her Christening. They are strung on a thin gold chain that is set up to be easily added to. Elizabeth and the beginnings of her pearl necklace are registered at Desjardins Jewelers in Beverly, MA. Anyone can call up at any time and buy a single pearl to be added to Elizabeth's necklace. The pearls can be shipped anywhere or they can be picked up by Grammie Linda.

If you're ever in search of something to buy Elizabeth for a birthday or holiday, how about a pearl? I will have a permanent link to this store's website in the links section on the right.

Desjardins Jewelers
47 Enon Street
Beverly, MA 01915
978 922 2149

Original Sin

I added some photos from today's party to my Flickr page. Go on over and have a look.

Elizabeth's Christening

I have been meaning to send an email out, but I keep forgetting. Elizabeth still needs to get rid of her original sin and we'd love to have you all here in Philly to witness it. With everyone being out of town (some more so than others), we wanted to give as much notice to anyone that wanted to and was able to travel for the Christening. We have a bit more flexibility with this baptism as there are no sick great-grandmothers, but I'd like to have it done before Elizabeth, Amazonian that she is, grows out of the beautiful Irish Christening gown we have. So we're thinking sometime in February or early March. We spoke to a priest at our new church and he seemed pretty willing to have the christening during a Saturday evening mass like we did with Linda at our old church (to make it easier for traveling). Are there any dates/weekends that would work best (or ones that are absolute no-go's) for those of you planning on coming to the Christening? The priest said we'd need to give him at least two weeks notice. Hopefully there won't be another national medical conference that books up every hotel in the city of Philadelphia this time around (damned urologists) and we can find something reasonable for everyone. Let me know if you have any opinions on the date. And please pass this request along to anyone without email who may want to come (like Great-Grammie or Nanamay).