Last Saturday night Kathy and I went to Frank and Stephanie’s wedding shower at Elizabeth and Harrison’s house. Lots of desserts. Everyone wrote a line of the poem “Frankie and Stephanie Get Married (A Poem).”

Mom and Dad watched our kids and E.E. The big event of their evening was Eric’s burp. Danny told us all about it when we checked in.

Susan Butker had some inside information about the start of the war. Soon after we arrived, we were told that the war would begin at 8 pm. Someone in Saudi had called Al somebody over here with prearranged code words to tell that the war would start that night at 8.

Sure enough, at 8:30, CNN announced the beginning of the war. Now, four days later, the word is that Bush will come on the air at 9 pm to announce an end to the war.

Not much of a war, thank goodness. Did everyone miscalculate, or was everyone appropriately cautious?

Last night, the four of us went to Fr. Lopez’ renewal at IHM. Nicole and Danny got to play in the nursery. Kathy and I sat with Dad who had stopped by the Varsity for dinner between work and the church. Dad’s working too hard. Hope he enjoys it.

On the way home, Danny wanted to know if we could watch America’s Funniest Home Videos. That’s what he gets to do if he is good at mass on Sunday nights. I guess he thought he had been good watching the Wizard of Oz in the nursery.

Nicole couldn’t stop giggling on the way home as Danny told me all about the Penny Pig he got to pet at school yesterday. He realized he must be saying something wrong because of Nicole’s laughter. “Is that right, Mom?” he asked worriedly about his Penny Pig.

Kathy was also cracking up, and, in the interest of protecting the endangered Penny Pig species, told him that he had it right.

[Guinea Pig.]