Retreat

We spent the good part of Saturday at a church retreat w B-man. I will be honest.. I was completely dreading this. Mostly because I dont believe the age of 7/8 is proper timing for catholic children to do both their first communion and confirmation. I feel like this is a whole ton of information for their little minds to take in, and I also believe that the meaning of what is being done is lost along the way.
I always thought that your confirmation was more your affirmation that you made as a "sort of" adult in consenting that you were actually making the decision to follow the catholic faith. It sort of gave you the control to make a decision for yourself at an early age, but one that could impact you for years to come.

I am now ushering my child to move forward in something he doesnt completely comprehend, and I dont feel great about it.
And, aside from all of this mental turmoil that I have going on, I am also dealing with B-mans asperger-ish tendancies in going through all of this. He is not on board.
He does not want to talk to anyone, he does not want to be the center of attention.
I have used every form of bribery I can imagine, and am also carrying around the unblessed body of christ in my car in hopes of getting B-man to try it before he has to do this in front of our church and priest. EEK!! I have been assured that because this is "unblessed" that it is totally fine to be carrying around.. but it just feels wrong.
Speaking of feeling wrong, I have spent the last 2 days trying to teach B-man how to hide it and pass it along to his dad because thus far he is refusing to even touch it. He is very literal, and he doesnt eat meat because it is animal bodies, does anyone really think he is going to put GODS body in his mouth!?!? Seriously.. its unlikely.

We have a practice ceremony the 14th and then the real deal the 18th... fingers crossed..