First of many?

I've not written here nearly as much as I'd hoped I would. Almost every day Ainsworth does something that that makes me think "that'll make a good blog post" but I never get round to writing it and now there's too much to talk about. I will try to do a bit of a catch-up by posting something each lunchtime from the office instead of reading the paper.

So, today, the first of many new posts - what shall I talk about?

We're in the middle of preparations for Ainsworth's dedication service at church on Sunday which we're hoping to be an interesting do. The dedication itself (which our minister tells us is technically an "infant presentation" but everyone refers to it as a dedication and always has) is a short part of the normal Sunday service, much like a christening but without any water. (It's a Baptist church so we leave baptism until someone's in a position to make his or her own mind up about it.) We'll make promises about how we intend to raise Ainsworth, the friends we've chosen to be Support Parents* will make a promise to support us however they see fit, the church will stand in support, and the minister will smile a lot. He loves babies. Especially ours.

We have fifty or so extra guests coming to the service, so we hope those that aren't used to church manage to get through it okay before we all depart to Rachael's school for a couple of speeches and a celebratory buffet (with bar, of course!). Rachael's speaking about our choice of Support Parents*, I'm talking about our choices for Ainsworth's names (I might try that out here tomorrow), then we've asked our two Support Parents* to say a little something about any hopes and aspirations they would have for Ainsworth. All in all, were hoping for a great day.

*"Support Parents?" I hear you ask. "Why not Godparents?" Simple: one of them is not a believer. We're adjusting the words of the promises subtly. We've made up for that by having the other one as a vicar.