Holy Thursday

"Stay with me, remain here with me.
Watch and pray. Watch and pray"

We have sung this Taize chant at Holy Thursday service for several years now, during the procession marking Jesus' walk to the garden. We sing it on our knees, as the Priest carries the Blessed Sacrament to a special place, set aside for veneration and adoration. I sing it on my knees, trying to walk with Jesus, trying not to one of the disciples who falls asleep.. I sing it on my knees, trying to walk in prayer.

I missed service tonight. It was a late start (8:00) and would be long and crowded. I regret not being there, to sing on my knees in service this year.

Rather, tonight as we got John ready for bed, after bath, I dried John's feet carefully and started to chant. Big Daddy and I chanted together "Stay with me..." John said "AGAIN!" and we chanted some more. John even joined in a bit with some of the words. It was our own prayer, our own walk, a special moment.

Lil'daddy's cousin came for a visit (pics)

This past sunday lil'daddy's cousin came over. It was so nice to see the little guys playing together. You might not be able to tell from the photo but we were all outside collecting eggs and enjoying the weather. As if the previous post didn't have enough pics, here are a couple more!




This is the second time we've done an egg hunt this year. The first time was at the local elementary school. There must have been a couple thousand eggs (all separated into age groups to prevent older kids from stampeding the younger ones). The hunt was over in two minutes! That is why I thought it was a good idea to buy 4 packages of 50 eggs (at wal-mart for like 99c each). Oh and if that wasn't enough, there were five more "special" eggs with die-cast cars in them.
yeah... umm... lil'daddy and his cousin were the only two kids. Neither of them had bags that could accomodate 100 eggs each. They were bored after like 5 minutes. They found the cars and left about 160 eggs on the front lawn. Monday lil'daddy and I planned to pick up the remaining eggs. That morning the sky up and decided to give the lawn a much needed watering. I was the guy on his front lawn, in a light rain shower, with a shopping bag trying to pick up 160 easter eggs! When the eggs came home from Wal-mart, they stuck out of 2 shopping bags. They are currently all stuffed into a single bag in the hall closet waiting for the cats to discover them... OR MOMMY!

Catching up on pics...

I always enjoy looking at the other kid pics on other peoples blogs to see how much everyone is growing. Looking back at my own blog, our last pictures were the snow pictures back in Feburary! I think it's time for a photo update.

We went down to Florida to bring some sunshine to Nonno & Nonna:


...and we had a treat at the beach:


lil'daddy met his younger cousin Milena:


during a hike lil'daddy mistook a pine cone for Ice cream cone:


partaking in some egg hunting:



Here he is with his mommy and daddy:




Our country boy:




This may be alot of pics at once but we had some catching up to do.