Another disaster avoided...
This year's take someone to work day passed without notice. I have had occasion to bring some of the kids to work and it was no jolly holiday. There was the time Rick and Chuck were out and I had to bring Eddie with me. Parking him on a little stool next to my desk, he helped stuff envelopes for the Christmas mailing. When that became tedious (after seven minutes) he amused himself with some work books and coloring books we brought along as back-up. His father bailed him out as soon as possible.

There was the time Eddie and I worked on a project of sorting and organizing homilies for one of the priests. More interesting and with a bit more prestige, Ed still had to have the project parceled out in tolerable chunks of time.

Maybe next year everybody should bring their kids to work. Except that most of us don't have kids who are especially young nor interested in church-lady-work. It could be a fun experiment. Especially is we let the young people answer the phones. Maybe they could make sense of some of the calls.