Months and months ago, I posted about contemplating whether to have my baby christened and how I could convince my husband to be cool with it.  Well, after a long time of procrastination, the baby and his big brothers will all be christened at our Episcopal church next month.  Or should I just say ‘baptized’ for the big boys? Christening seems like just a baby thing.  Anyway, it turned out after all my rambling on and worrying about it, that my husband was fine with the christening.  I don’t know why I didn’t just ask earlier.  But then he wouldn’t give me his opinion about who the godparents should be.  Finally after asking him several times and getting very little response, I just told him, “OK, I’m going to fill out the forms tomorrow and I’ll just pick the godparents if that’s o.k. with you.”  So that’s what I did.  And he was fine with it.  Good grief, I guess I could have done that much earlier, too.

So the baby will be baptized at just over a year old and the big boys will be 8 and 5.  Whatever. I just want them to be fully part of our church community.  Also I get to put them in cute clothes and take pictures, and that’s always nice.

Anne, I know you don’t even get baby dedications, but you know me and my rituals.  How about other readers?  If you’re a parent, did you have your babies christened?  Is it odd that I’m waiting so late to do my kids?  Or is it odd that I even want to partake of such an old-fashioned ritual?

1. Anne Says:
   August 30th, 2010 at 10:26 pm

   I thought you did a blessing or something before you moved? Maybe that was in my imagination.

   If you are raising in a particular tradition, I think it makes sense for them to be apart of it. I just don’t think that “dedications” have anything to do with my Baptist tradition. I don’t care what all the other Baptist baby dedicators do.

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