We have been clicking along quite nicely with school and now can afford (meaning we will still finish that math book by mid-May) to take a couple of weeks off and concentrate on Easter. We have been cleaning to the point that I would have to follow the boys around with the vacuum to keep the place any cleaner. (Okay, the stove is still waiting ...) and today we are relaxing, me with the computer and the Hobbits with a game of Hero Scape.
Tomorrow we will be attending the Holy Thursday mass which will be said in memory of our very beloved priest who died three years ago on Holy Thursday. He is still greatly missed and I am sure we will need a large supply of kleenex to get through this. Cake and coffee afterwards and then Eucharistic adoration...
I haven't decided about Friday. Stations and liturgy are at noon with no service later that we could attend as a family. We have had Good Friday snow storms the last couple of years (snow is early this year and the nine inches we got yesterday should be gone by Friday)and we have done the stations here at home. I like this. We place cards of the stations around the dining room table with small candles set in front of them. The boys take turns reading the devotions and then blowing out the candle. The room is fairly dark by the end and we are subdued by the great sacrifice of our Lord. Hmmm...
On Saturday we will tidy up, decorate eggs and the house, bake bread and go to the Vigil Mass. It is ten years since we entered the Church as a family! The best ten years, ever!!
On Easter Sunday Grandma will come and we will celebrate with an Easter Egg hunt. (and a huge ham dinner!)Hopefully, out side.(not the dinner) It has been a few years since we have done that. Little Hobbit can't remember an outdoor hunt!
