Thanks

Last Thursday Cindy and Michael attended our parish's high school retreat. I personally was not able to help with things but wanted to thank those who had any hand in this wonderful experience. This retreat was not a normal retreat like many go on but was a very unique experience. The title of the retreat was "You matter" and in addition to all of the fun activities,and of course prayer, the thirteen high school age kids who attended and many adult helpers turned things into a wonderful community service project. Between Thursday afternoon and Friday evening they spent quite a bit of time preparing soup, sloppy joe sandwiches, cookies, brownies , and some other foods for distribution at our diocese St. Vincent De Paul soup kitchen. Everything was packed up Friday before they left and refrigerated awaiting every one's return in Saturday morning to transport it to , heat it and serve those in need at the soup kitchen. I was in awe that this group did such a wonderful job .

Now a days you can't turn on the news without hearing how some teenagers somewhere have committed some terrible crime, but when do you ever hear about things like this? You rarely do ! This is why I felt the need to applaud these good teenagers. While we are at it I would also like to applaud the parents and advisers of this group and other's like it for proving that Today's teenagers are not all bad .

Thank you for listening . Now I can put my soap box back in the closet for another day !

Easter pictures

The Easter Bunny Came !

( yes in addition to baskets he left socks and underwear. Hopefully by next Easter the kids will not still be craving Rabbit stew :-)
Clancy and Clarissa with their baskets
( The brown ones are made of and filled with rawhide )


Robby shows his goodies

Michael

Cindy

Mike with his gummy bunny teeth

The shirt reads "Almost as good as Chocolate"

No pictures of eggs being colored but one of the finished product

Looks like I had the flu

Though I thought I had a case of food poisoning the other day I am now thinking it had to be the flu. Unfortunately after mass this morning Robby has started showing some of the same symptoms.His sudden onset of illness caused us to have to leave the restaurant where we all went after for breakfast without even ordering. He seems to be doing OK this evening and hopefully the illness will stop with him.It is always nice to see spring come . Too bad that the change of temperature always seems to bring this type of thing.

My Friday morning

Mike has just left for work and the older two children are at their teenage Parish retreat. What does that mean to me? Why get Robby and I ready and go to Morning mass with my Mom , aunts ,and uncles of course.

Since my Grandmother's passing, many friends and family have been having masses said for her at her home church. ( which is a much more an old school Catholic church than I am used to) As many Catholics are aware, these masses were originally intended as a way to make sure that your loved one's soul makes it into eternal rest in Heaven. Though For several reasons( I may get into one in particular in a later post) I have no doubt that Grandma is enjoying God's promised kingdom as I type, it is still respectful to attend these masses. So as for now I am off to church.

Have a great day all !

Easter pictures coming soon

Though we didn't take too many Easter pictures this year we did take a few.I almost cried when I realized that Mike and I had both slept through the kids coloring eggs but that is just how it goes sometimes. Unfortunately we have not had any down time since Easter either. Monday was a meeting of our thirty forty something group. After which Mike could not get the key out of the Aztec when he turned it off. This resulted into a call for AAA to tow it to the garage to get it fixed. ( Mike couldn't do the work because of the computerized keys that he didn't have the machine to reprogram .After this there was karate followed by Tuesday night wings . Now I am not sure if it was the wings, or what but I am down today with what may be the flu . I guess that this is my pathetic way of saying sorry that there are no pictures posted yet. I promise some will appear soon.

Quote of the Day (Thanks Kim )

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill

Happy Easter all !

The ham has been pulled to thaw.

The cabbage and carrots shredded awaiting coleslaw dressing to be made in the morning.

The bread is rising.

The pies are made.

The potato and green bean casseroles are assembled in the fridge awaiting oven time.

The eggs are boiled and ready to be colored though it has become our tradition

( due to multiple years with hectic schedules)

to color them Easter day after dinner.

Thank you God for another year that we are healthy enough to prepare and eat dinner together. Thank you that we are fortunate enough have food to prepare and consume.

Thank you for all of the many blessings that you have bestowed on our family.

Please continue to bless and provide for us.

In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen