I want to put a bunch of photo albums in my storage room, so I went through them first to see if there were any pics I wanted to share. This post is some of my nunly pics.
I went apple picking with the senior sisters. This is the same place Dottie and my father and I had gone. You just fill up a bag and they weigh it and that’s that. It was a nice little outing.
When I was a novice, we went to Greymoor twice a year for a week each. It was just for novices and their novice directors. This is us doing the Macarena, so you get an idea when this was taken. Notice whose bright clothing stands out? Yeah, that’d be me! Pat turned 50 during one of the trips to Greymoor. That was so ooooooooooold at the time!
This is the first place I lived in Syracuse: Spirit House Convent, with JP and Dollie. No clue what Nuclear Free Zone means. They told me but it didn’t make sense at the time, either.
This is JP (Sr. James Peter). I thought I scanned a pic of Dollie (Sr. Dolores), but I don’t see it.
This is the bell choir in concert. I included this picture because at some point it was much bigger, and I was in it. I played lower C and D bells. Those things were heavy!
After Spirit House, I spent two years in the Formation House. The first year I lived with Marise, Pat, and Dot. Pat was the Formation Director. The second year I lived with Helen, Pat, and Fely (on the end). The other person in the picture is a sister from Peru who was also in formation and stayed with us for a little while. I totally forget her name, though!
While I was in Syracuse, for a while I helped out at the Brady Faith Center. Susan and I did Vacation Bible School a couple years I think. One year we made a quilt for the podium. I got the fabric, cut it out, and we taught the kids to sew. They each picked out the cross they wanted, sewed it on, and signed it. The thing is, I don’t know what the priest did with it afterwards!!
I also made a lot of dolls. That was great fun. One of the dolls I gave to a family I was close to from the day care center. Mom took pictures of Mary opening it on Christmas for me! She said Mary loved it, especially knowing that one was made just for her!
one of the dolls (not sure who got this one)
