By Morris Bishop…
I lately lost a preposition:
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: “Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!”
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor;
And yet I wondered: “What should he come
Up from out of in under for?”
It’s also Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday today. In honor of him, I’m going to stand funny and see if anyone notices.
We spent Easter afternoon at Grammy Peep and PapaJohn’s house. (You may remember them from the shooting of the wise men.) What fun! First of all, we had our traditional Easter meal: ham, Irene Straw cornflake potatoes, 7 layer jello, crescent rolls, pickled eggs, and a new addition, asparagus (which I ate with my fingers because it is socially acceptable to do so). We also had Funyuns, enough chocolate to choke a horse, and Aunt Kay Kay made two pies and cookies and some peanut butter/bread things.
After lunch, PapaJohn had an egg hunt for the kids. In the eggs were money and slips of paper. The children had to choose one paper to keep, give one away, and blindly choose another paper from someone else. What hooting laughs we had. Some of the papers were good things–get a can of root beer, get cell phone minutes added on your phone, get free pushes on the swing, control the TV for an hour. And some were funny–get a big lip kiss from Grammy Peep, get a bear hug from PapaJohn, kiss Molly Dog on the lips, perform something for us.
After the first hunt, Peep had another one, this time for eggs filled with candy. We all wished we had a video camera running on LibbyK as she tossed eggs into her bag and didn’t realize that she had missed. Hunter just followed along behind her, picking up the eggs.
Today, it is grey and rainy, but the radiant glow from all the leftover chocolate in the house makes it feel like summer!
It’s almost Wednesday! Isn’t that exciting? Okay, it’s not really, but we’ll pretend. Wait, it actually is exciting. It’s my mom’s birthday! Happy, happy, happy to her!
Not a whole lot is going on now in the aftermath of the big production, or perhaps the usual chaos seems so much less. I’ve got Easter candy hiding in my closet and am considering what presents to purchase for the children. Do you do much for Easter? I like to have all sorts of goodies, but I’m rather short of ideas this year. We plan to go to my mom’s for Easter lunch, which will be all sorts of yummy.
Speaking of yummy, what Easter candy treat is your favorite?
(I like those little wrapped chocolate eggs and jellybeans, particularly the sour ones.)
Remember a while back (I would say 39 days ago) that I mentioned Lent? It turns out, I did decide to observe Lent this year–my very first one. I was ready for the 40 days of sacrifice, and it was rather a rude awakening in the middle of Lent to realize it is actually 46 days long. (Sundays don’t count.)
I’m not exactly sure what I expected from this experience. I suppose I thought that by this time in the process I would have been closer to God and have been given new insights into His character that I wouldn’t have understood without this time of sacrifice. This has not been the case. Perhaps my hopes were too high. Giving up something for a month and a half isn’t such big a deal, especially when compared to sacrificing your life for someone else.
Now, what have I learned from Lent? Well…maybe I can better answer that question after Easter. I still have eight days to go!
How’s your Lenten season going?
I guess I didn’t realize the title of the entry when I recommended it. However, I think the writer makes some great points about homeschooling and public schooling. Maybe you’ll just think the title was my April Fool’s joke to you. Maybe?
I am annoyed. My cat smells like cat pee. My back porch smells like cat pee. The whole world is beginning to smell like cat pee. I should just make some cookies.
