When Pope Benedict XVI was chosen, I was a senior in high school. I vaguely remember watching the announcement on one of the teeny, tiny, outdated tvs in a classroom right after school. That's about all I recall, though. This time, my husband was hard at work behind of the scenes of popealarm.com/ with the rest of the team, so I was extraordinarily plugged in... in fact, my husband left for work at 2:30 am to be ready for the vote on Wednesday (he and several other members of the team were there and ready in case white smoke should go up so they could initiate the text and email sending).
While the wee hours of the morning vote ended up in black smoke (meaning they didn't reach a concensus), the late morning vote was white smoke! We had a Pope! I was napping (a shocking occurance right now) with Lettie, so Daniel called to make sure I knew in case I wanted to pull up coverage. At first I told him he could just call me back when they knew who it was, but a few moments after hanging up the phone, I realized I really wanted to see this... to know who our new Papa would be! Anni woke up within a few minutes of the phone call and together we watched the announcement of Pope Francis. Anni is a little concerned about where "Pope Benedictine is", but declared that she "wuvs them both so much!" What a beautiful time in our church to share with my girls!
