"Mom, why do we have all these books?" Adrien picked up one and shown it to his mother, staring at books that he was still too young to read, but they seemed pretty important and not quite the kind of books that he felt like most people had.
Emilie smiled, "They were from before I knew your father." She looked back in time, "And, I didn't know I was going to get married."
"Do people just know they're going to get married?" It seemed like something big and impossible to know, and Adrien wondered if his father knew that he was going to get married, if his mother didn't.
"I, I think they do. I was going to be a Nun." The words seemed difficult to pronounce, because her three year old likely did not understand what they meant. She brought him to Mass whenever she could, but though she still made sure to go every Sunday and felt bad to miss Mass, her husband never became Catholic and did not want to raise his son up Catholic. 'Let him decide when he's older.' Sometimes, she questioned her choice, but she really did love Gabriel and knew that there had to be a reason.
"A Nun? What's that?" Adrien looked up at her as if he expected it to be something easier to explain.
"Well, you know Jesus, right?" Emilie took a deep breath, "A Nun is a woman who is the bride of Jesus, or she decides to live her life devoted to him and to the Church. She lives with other woman who made the same choice, and they embrace a life of service to Jesus." She wasn't sure if he'd recognize other words quite as well. Christ might be something a little harder for him to understand still yet.
"Oh." Adrien smiled up at her, "So only girls can be Nuns?" He looked up at her.
"Yeah, and boys can grow up to be Priests." She smiled at him, "They can give people Jesus at Mass." It was a little easier to explain this, and she still admired the Priests that she met.
"Oh, can I be a Priest?" Adrien's green eyes lit up, and Emilie couldn't help the smile that grew on her face.
"You have to be Baptized first. I'll ask your father." Emilie answered her son, with such a warm smile on her face.
"Yay!" Adrien threw his hands up in the air in excitement, "I want to be B-Baptized!" He struggled for a second with the word, but that wasn't enough to dishearten either of them.