What I Wore Sunday--Rejoice! (Vol. 7)

I cannot tell you how excited I am to again be joining everyone at Fine Line and Purple for another "What I Wore Sunday".

I can't lie I purposely wore pink today to be liturgically correct and I find it funny that a few people noticed, including my pastor.

This Sunday I was back at my home parish. There was some extra-ordinary blessings-you know besides God becoming flesh and blood before our very eyes.

When I am home I spend alot of time with a dear friend of mine who is an amazing mother to three children age newborn to four. At various times during Mass I was holding either the the two year old or the newborn. There is something special about holding a little one without the stain of sin during Mass. What a joy, although my tune will most likely change when I am a mother myself, to hold a saint in your arms during the greatest prayer we can offer on earth.

Secondly, our pastor today gave a homily about the Newtown, CT school shootings. As he often does, he had one of those "catches you and makes you remember it" phrases. He said,

"We rejoice knowing that God has not abandoned us even though many have abandoned Him."

God is always with us and he is with all those affected by the shooting. These shooting hit me hard, not only because my town only last February also had a school shooting tragedy but also because I have been to Newtown-twice. I have about five household sisters who live in Newtown and I have been to two of their weddings at the parish in Newtown, St. Rose of Lima. The town is so quaint and lovely and the parish is incredibly welcoming. My prayers are with my sisters and their families, with the town, and with all those families who had a hole tragically put in their family. I know how hard it is to process a tragedy occurring in your own town but also I can't absorb how many where killed, a children. Even though a life, is a life, is a life, the number 26 27 is really big. (Whether the victim or the shooter, still a life.)

So after that I now I feel incredibly self-conscious showing you what I wore today but I do suppose that is what you came over for.

Right after Mass we went to get our Christmas tree, hence why the picture is taken in a tree barn. Just wait till you see the tree we got, you will have to stop back to see it in all its glory.

This is not the tree we got, too typically compared to our tree.

Skirt: Target (similar to this one but not exactly, the one I have on has a fold over waist)
Top: Old Navy, a new favorite! I actually became obsessed with it when I saw it on someone else's "What I Wore Sunday" but I cannot remember for the life of me who I saw it on.
Scarf: A flea market in Belgium
Booties: I am pretty sure I got these in middle school. There is something fun about pulling something out that you got a super long time ago but you can still make work.

Live joy.