For most of the fridays during lent, we went to our Church's Fish Fry. At the first, Mary Kate spotted her teacher, Mrs. Harhai (in blue with the apron pictured at left) She adores Mrs. H and tagged along with her ... well, Mary is born to serve. I think she'll take care of people in some respect with she gets older, because she works so hard and is so diligent to make sure others are happy.

Grandma Fran came one week, as did Aunt Mel another. But in the pics above you see our wonderful Aunt Robbie, who made adjustments in her schedule to have Miss Fish Fry 2006 serve her! WOW was she excited.

It has kept us busy and kept Mary looking for something fun on Fridays. The last week, Miss Claire got in ont he action, helping to clean up at the end. I figured she couldn't get herself into too much trouble... and she is REALLY good at separating salt and pepper shakers!!! She was so happy to be "big" and be helping.

On Good Friday, there is ofcourse no fish fry as the custom is to "be still" and peaceful on Good Friday, especially in the afternoon. But we went to Stations of the Cross. As we we pulled in... I didn't even realize it was 5:30 and we would normally be going to Fish Fry. Claire seemed visiably annoyed when we parked in the upper parking lot.... "I'm having dinner FIRST before CHUUUUUCH".... and Tim and I got a BIG chuckle..... She was NOT amused to discover that there was no fish!

TOO FUNNY!