Well--even if it's a bad song, I would guess that would be better than the no song which is my category. And my guess is that there will be no Alane song. Now if someone did an Alane song, I'm not sure what genre I would like--half of me says that Alejandro Escovedo and Patty Griffin could do some serious lyrical magic and it would be this moody folky piece that leaves you feeling just a little sad after hearing it. The other half says it should be some sort of total nonsensical song like Mony, Mony.

Yesterday was all Saints day. The school the boys attend let the first graders come in dressed as a saint for the mass. So once again, not really thinking things through to well, I opted to dress Cookie as St. Jude Thaddeus. First I did not realize that it would be nay near impossible to find a white sheath like thing to use as the main garment. I did go on line and found a Jesus costume for kids but I just wasnt willing to pay out for it. So therefore on sunday i was madly dashing to target to see if I could find the elusive vestment. Luckily they had a clearance cleopatra costume that I was able to turn into a serviceable white dress thing. I then needed a walking stick--which seemed like it should be easy to find and once again proved daunting. I found a long bamboo stick at a craft store that was suppose to have a flower on the end but it had fallen off. I took it up to the cash register to purchase this prize and the lady just gave it to me. St. Jude is always pictured with this medallion that is suppose to be this piece of fabric Christ wiped his face on and gave to Jude to give to a king to cure himself. So I was in need of a shroud of turin type thing. So at about 10:00 at night I'm cutting up this picture of the shroud of turin john printed for me and attempting to glue it to a paper plate. Which all seemed so wrong--it was just a bit creepy cutting a reproduction shroud and gluing it. I was then frantically coloring the edges of the plate gold to complete this thing. I finally finished about 11:00 and vowed that Joseph would be a much easier saint next year. At least I have the sheath ready to go...
The amazing thing about this whole thing was almost the whole class was dressed as saints, and some of these folks had way more elaborate get ups then cookie. I will have John post St. Jude and his brethren as I am not technically savy enough to do it.