My grandparents and parents have fostered in us the importance of family, of respect for all life and, most of all, of a true relationship with God. With prayer, teaching and patience, they have helped me to become who I am today, and am most grateful for that.
I have had many detours in my life. After college, I was a teacher of 4th grade, then 1st for about 8 years. Then I took a sharp turn and began working in the culinary field...which, it just now occurred to me, is how I came to meet Sister Stan! You are witnesses to my epiphany...which is on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany. This just keeps getting weirder!
Lets see if I can bring you along with me here...when I decided to go into the culinary field, my grandparents, Bob and Jo Noonan, were chairpersons of Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the home. They would aid families in consecrating their homes to the Sacred Heart, and they hosted a lunch after mass on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus each June. They enlisted my help with the lunch, and when my traveling partner and her husband, Paula and Tom, took over, I continued to help them. Well, it was at one such function this past June that I met Sister Stan. Honestly, it never before occurred to me that my grandparents were at the heart of yet another pivotal moment in my life. Praise God!!
Anyways, my family, up to now, has been my world. It is about to be expanded in a huge way. And my feeling is, my family is just going to get bigger! Here are some pics of my peeps. They mean more to me than any earthly thing, and the best part is, they are so in support of me, in what I am doing now, and in my openness to what God has planned for me. I am truly blessed!!
