February 28, 2006

• ~Random thoughts and statements~

  
  

  -For Roman Catholics NOT Eastern Orthodox today is “Fat Tuesday” or as they called it in England “Shrove Tuesday” on this day in England and France they make pancakes , they aren’t like American pancakes they are crepes. Today is also called “Pancake Day”. In the Roman Catholic Church tomorrow is “Ash Wednesday”. This is NOT an Eastern Orthodox practice.

  
  

  - This year Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter) falls on April 23. The Orthodox Church uses the Julian Calendar to calculate Easter and the Western Church uses the Gregorian.  This year Pascha falls a  week later than Western Easter. Lent begins tomorrow for the Roman Catholic Church. Next Monday is CLEAN MONDAY and the beginning of GREAT LENT for Eastern Orthodox Christians.

  
  

  - Yesterday out of 151 students K-12 at our children’s school 42 were home sick, so classes have been canceled for the next two days. Our children are not sick, so we  have can have some fun today!

  
  

  - Fr. was preparing the baby’s cereal (Fr.  enjoys the chance to feed Maria~Angelica  since up to now only I could ) and he was getting such a kick out of her; she was getting so excited watching him, she knew what was coming. The sweet little thing was opening her little mouth and was wide eyed with excitement! All this over rice cereal! LOL

  
  

  - Today is pajama day at nursery school and Jonah is so cute in his Scooby doo jammies , the older boys wanted to spend the night at Yiayia and Papou’s since they didn’t have school today. It looks like we are going to have a pretty nice day  today, I am thinking of taking everyone to Museum Center . The  movie at the Omnimax is  Greece: Secrets of the Past . We received free passes to the Omnimax with our membership and this is a movie I think we would all enjoy.

  
  

  - Maria~Angelica has her 4 month checkup today. I can tell she has really grown and in the last two days seems a lot heavier to me, she is still so little though. Lately she has started to enjoy bearing some weight on her legs; I need to get the excersaucer out.

  
  

  - I want to go on “Deal or No Deal” I can think of so much I would do with that kind of money!

  
  

  - I took this quiz the other day and here are my results:

  
  

  Your quiz results make you a Zen Mom
  
  How do you do it? Even when explosions are all around, you are able to take a deep cleansing breath and chant your mantra “this too shall pass.” You are a calming influence on your kids in a hectic world.
  

  
  

  I think that is pretty accurate, I am always saying or thinking “this too shall pass!lol  I would say I am more like a “Jesus Prayer Mom” then a Zen mom. I take a deep cleansing breath and say “Lord Jesus Christ have Mercy on me”.
  
  

  
  

  Have a great day today! For my Orthodox readers enjoy your dairy this week Cheesefare Sunday is coming up!

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