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from Sis last night saying they'd made it to their Airbnb but "were too tired from driving all day to come over". Which was fine because the last I knew, they weren't planning on stopping over here* until Saturday morning before I have to leave for work and I still need to do some spot cleaning in the living room and bathroom. Also, there had been talk of going somewhere for breakfast today so I was up earlier than usual...that kind of petered out.

* Dad's not big on going out or going to wherever Sis and BIL are staying when in town so if they want to see him, and they usually do, they come here. There's been a couple of times I've convinced Dad to go with me when I met Sis and BIL for coffee or for a meal but he didn't enjoy it. The time he joined us for coffee, he was more interested in seeing how the neighborhood where the coffeehouse is has changed since his youth.

You are correct--we are not. The only Catholics in our family are my one cousin's wife and kids, though they're not devout. He technically converted from the family denomination (Dad's side is mostly Lutheran) in order to be allowed to marry in a Catholic church but other than the kids' baptisms, I don't think he's been to (Catholic) church since.

Mom was raised Baptist, fell away from the church for a bit after she turned 18, then came back. Both Sis and Bro were raised Baptist; Bro wound up attending an even stricter non-denominational church as an adult along with his (now ex) wife and kids but all of them left that church for...reasons I can't say (not my place). Bro now attends a Presbyterian church and my niece and nephew go to the United Methodist church where Nephew plays piano and organ every Sunday morning (niece only attends sporadically). When my siblings were older teens, something happened at our church that...wasn't great but WAS technically "biblical", so she fell away from God altogether. Mom and I always joked Sis was, and still is, looking for "The Church of <Sis' first name>, a church that would allow her to do basically anything she wanted without consequences. I think she enjoys the ritual and familiarity of church but doesn't subscribe to the message. BIL lost both of his parents before he was out of his teens; he's long hated God because of that and wouldn't step foot in a church for years. I remember a family vacation to Georgia, to the church my maternal grandparents worshipped at, and attending "Decoration Day" (a mostly Southern tradition where churches pick a Sunday in the summer and decorate the graves in the church cemetery out back, then have a big picnic lunch on the grounds after the sermon). BIL stayed outside and helped the people set up for the picnic. I thought he was still adverse to being inside a church but apparently he's softened his stance somewhat. He's not a believer at ALL but he can appreciate the music and the friendliness of (most) churchgoers. Sis' son is agnostic but seeking--he believes in a higher power but hasn't quite decided yet what that higher power looks like or does--and Sis' daughter is probably best described as an "ambivalent atheist". She doesn't believe but she's willing to attend church with those who do if it's important to them.

Aaaand...that was probably way more than you wanted to know about my family's theological stances <g>.