What a week! Tuesday - John's birthday. Thursday - my birthday. Weekend - Good Friday and Easter. We have been celebrating all week (i.e. eating lots of food and cake!)
Unfortunately our schedules didn't work out so that we could spend much time together on our birthdays, but we made the best of it. I worked late on John's birthday and he was at school until 10:30 pm on my birthday. We still managed to have a couple of candlelit dinners prepared by chef John and I baked us each a cake.
Today we celebrated Easter Sunday with a lovely, outdoor sunrise service. We managed to wake up while it was still dark, get dressed up, and travel to the very small town of Emmett to meet up with my incredibly sweet (and spry!) 92-year-old coworker at her church. The small gathering of people were kind and welcoming, the singing was off-key but heartfelt, and the sermon was thoughtful and intelligent. It was a simple and very real celebration of Christ's resurrection. And afterward we all sat down to chat over cinnamon rolls, muffins, orange juice and coffee.
After taking a nap, John and I prepared ourselves a special Easter dinner.
It was a beautiful day here, so after dinner we took a stroll through the park and down main street, and ended up back on our front porch swing. What a wonderful day.
Happy Easter everyone.
or as we say in our family........
Christos voskrese! Christ is risen Voistinu voskrese! He is risen indeed
Unfortunately our schedules didn't work out so that we could spend much time together on our birthdays, but we made the best of it. I worked late on John's birthday and he was at school until 10:30 pm on my birthday. We still managed to have a couple of candlelit dinners prepared by chef John and I baked us each a cake.
Today we celebrated Easter Sunday with a lovely, outdoor sunrise service. We managed to wake up while it was still dark, get dressed up, and travel to the very small town of Emmett to meet up with my incredibly sweet (and spry!) 92-year-old coworker at her church. The small gathering of people were kind and welcoming, the singing was off-key but heartfelt, and the sermon was thoughtful and intelligent. It was a simple and very real celebration of Christ's resurrection. And afterward we all sat down to chat over cinnamon rolls, muffins, orange juice and coffee.
After taking a nap, John and I prepared ourselves a special Easter dinner.
It was a beautiful day here, so after dinner we took a stroll through the park and down main street, and ended up back on our front porch swing. What a wonderful day.
Happy Easter everyone.
or as we say in our family........
Christos voskrese! Christ is risen Voistinu voskrese! He is risen indeed
