Ordination day

Although long, emotional and exhausting, the day of Richard's ordination was really special and a great day to remember. It started at 6am in our house as we had to get all the family up and ready to travel down to Derby at 8am in convoy with Colin, our incumbent.

The cathedral informed us that there would be a creche room available but no one to look after anyone's children so we took a babysitter with us who would take Emily & Jojo into the creche during the service. Once we arrived at the cathedral, firstly they told us there was no creche room but then it turned out there was and it was supervised after all! Colin wasn't pleased.

Aside from creche issues, the service was long but bearable and had it's lovely moments, including the Bish washing the deacons' feet to identify himself as a servant with them.



The girls loved being able to finally see their Daddy after the service and it was great to see people who'd travelled down from Glossop to support Richard.

We had lunch with family and then made the trek back up to Glossop where a welcome tea at the vicarage awaited us.

After having very little sleep the night before and such a long day I was half asleep and close to tears by the time we got back but the congregations of the parish had been invited to the tea to welcome us and we needed to go. It was all a bit overwhelming for everyone by this stage and we stayed as long as we could. I got to bed at 6.30 that evening and slept for 12 hours!