Exciting Milestones

After three posts on DWM's, I thought I'd mention a few less sad milestones:

• Another nephew, B1S2, age 12, is being baptized Easter Sunday. He's finally getting a chance to become involved in church after a bit of a hiatus, and is excited about playing drums in the youth group praise band.
• Two of our (oldest friends? they aren't that old...) friends of many, many years are being received into the Catholic Church during this year's Easter vigil. Having come from the same evangelical fundamentalist type background that we did, they are also both being confirmed now as adults. We each took long roads to get here. I hope to someday hear more about their faith journey once they've caught their breath.
• Eliza, after many twists and turns in her story, may actually be able to come home in the next few days. There is enough certainty that her folks are being allowed to room-in with her to get ready for 24/7 care.

Plenty to celebrate.