It's been really fun every year reading through the stories of various saints and Biblical characters in the weeks leading up to the contest. It's humbling to hear how truly heroic some of these men and women were.
We learned about many of the early saints like Felicity, who died for her faith just days after giving birth to her first child, as well as more modern saints like Maximilian Kolbe, a priest who volunteered to take the place of a husband and father sentenced to die by starvation in a concentration camp during WWII.
In the end, Elena chose St. Brigid of Ireland and Sam chose St. Anthony. They put a lot of work into learning about their saints this year, and both won 1st place for their class!
As the day of the contest drew near, we were trying to convince Sam to shave his head like a monk for his costume. We told him that if he did a really good job, he might win the grand prize. Sam asked, "But what if I don't?" Seth, thinking Sam would never agree to cutting his hair, offered to pay him the same amount at the grand prize (which in the past has been $100). Sam, of course, jumped at that offer and let us shave his head.
He was a little self-conscious at first, keeping it covered with a hat on his way to school; but by the end of the day when we wanted to shave it all off, Sam said he wanted to just leave it until it had all grown out. Fortunately, we were able to talk him out of that and he now has a super short head of hair.
In the end, Elena won the grand prize for the lower grades so Seth had to pay up, and both kids were very happy. Fortunately, they lowered the grand prize amount to $45 this year so we didn't have to fork over quite as much as we had thought.
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| St. Brigid, St. Anthony and "Father Charlie" |
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