Thursday, July 15, 2010

Summer at Sacred Heart Church

This is just a picture of the twins, from Sacred Heart Church -- a couple of weeks ago, I think. Joe was so happy to see his (younger) twin sister. He thinks she's the coolest thing on two legs. And she's always been there for him, ever since that day, fifteen years ago, when she toddled over to Joe and handed him a bottle, saying, "Dofus! Badoh!" She's been his lifeline ever since.
Joe used to come home from school to a houseful of children, siblings and their friends who automatically became his friends too, God bless them! Now, too often he comes home for a weekend with just me. If I plan it right, he keeps busy visiting all his favorite places: Peck's Market, where all the pretty high school girls work, the recycling center where Joe gets to dump the glass bottles into the big container and listen to the satisfying crash, yeah! And sometimes we go by Jesse's and he comes over to greet Joe, leaving a car up on the lift for Joe to look at. Pretty girls and cool, macho guys who work with cars and smash up garbage, that's Joe's world.