{"id":2039,"date":"2009-07-20T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2009-07-20T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T22:13:39","slug":"sweet-sweet-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Sweet, Sweet Child&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2040\" title=\"Stinker I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-I-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Stinker I\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-I-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-I-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-I.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just had to take a moment to &#8220;jot&#8221; this down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McCanless has had her fair share of humorous church stories, although some didn&#8217;t quite seem so &#8220;humorous&#8221; at the moment.\u00a0\u00a0 And over time, our fellow parishners have learned to chuckle quietly at McCanless&#8217; <em>and Mel&#8217;s<\/em> Sunday morning antics.\u00a0 And now, my sweet Mary Clare is in on fun.\u00a0 Sometimes I have to sit in between Mel and McCanless with Mary Clare on my lap to keep them all somewhat behaved and seated in the pew. \u00a0 Thank goodness the girls are only in the service for communion every Sunday, which is certainly enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Sunday after the service, as usual, I had sereral folks tell me how much they enjoy watching my family in church. <em>Tongue in cheek, I&#8217;m sure.<\/em> (We do sit in the very front pew, directly in front of Father Michael and in perfect view of the entire congregation.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were also three very sweet ladies who said they adored listening to Mary Clare sing.\u00a0 She usually belts out her own melodic version when she hears our choir singing hymns.\u00a0 This Sunday, they said they were so touched to hear her loudly sing, &#8220;I\u00a0 WUV JE-SUS!&#8221;\u00a0 What a sweet, sweet child, and I agreed.\u00a0 <em>Of course.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I failed to mention, and I hope this doesn&#8217;t mean I was lying in church, is that she was belting out lyrics to a Taylor Swift song.\u00a0 &#8220;I WEAR T-SHIRTS.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently, Mel and McCanless found it entertaining to whisper a few lines in her ear only to hear her finish the chorus so loudly in her &#8220;sweet, sweet voice&#8221; it nearly overpowered the choir&#8230;over and over and over and over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2041\" title=\"Stinker II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-II-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stinker II\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-II-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Stinker-II.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Just had to take a moment to &#8220;jot&#8221; this down&#8230; McCanless has had her fair share of humorous church stories, although some didn&#8217;t quite seem so &#8220;humorous&#8221; at the moment.\u00a0\u00a0 And over time, our fellow parishners have learned to chuckle quietly at McCanless&#8217; and Mel&#8217;s Sunday morning antics.\u00a0 And now, my sweet Mary Clare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}