18!
It was eighteen years ago today that our family joined the Church. So the way I figure it, Rick has now been Catholic a third of his life. The numbers don’t crunch so neatly for me…but it must work out to more than a third, right? Oh well, happy anniversary to us.

(I am ashamed to admit that there was a time I didn’t remember the date of such a wonderful event. I just remembered it was in early May, sometime before Chuck’s birth. Now that I handle the sacramental records in our parish, I come across the entry in the baptismal and confirmation registers all the time…and always with a certain sense of amazement. And thereby have committed the date to memory.)