Brown English Muffin

I came to work dressed like a wanna be yoga instructor today I don't quite know what possessed me and I should honestly know better, even if my company is casual dress and only consists of maybe 20 employees on a good day!

Spring break and the drive in to work was a breeze, hopefully the drive home will be just as easy as we have a funeral to attend. Our neighbors brother had a car accident, hit a lamp post and THEN had a heart attack. This kind of death seems to resonate more with me, as if the accident wasn't enough but then the SHOCK of the accident actually kills you. So sad.

We went to support our local public high school with their rendition of "Beauty and the Beast" and it was PHENOMENAL! Baby C said it was just as good as when we went to see Cinderella on Broadway! We can't wait to see the high school has up their sleeve next.

My friends child is going to their first anger management counselling today. I'm hoping they find the peace and inner self confidence they need. My friend said she'll share anything that may help prevent this for me...I appreciate this so much as I've learnt so much from this friend over the years...from how to deal with constant physical pain, to how to let go and start over and emotionally work through it all. She has the strength of no other and she makes me so proud.

I keep forgetting that today is Good Friday. I think the fact that I'm at work and didn't get the day off, the fact that I'm excited about the traffic being light and the fact that when I look at the calendar for this weekend it doesn't look like a New York City Subway Map makes me forget everything. Plus while forgetting all of these things I forgot to get fish for dinner....everyone's supposed to have fish on good Friday no?

I'd like to cook a leg of lamb for Easter Sunday....I picked out this recipe Simple Garlic and Rosemary Roast Lamb" and now of course I simply need to go and actually buy the leg of lamb... oh voy! The simplest of feats is now made difficult...

I'm wondering in my head, (it hasn't made it to my mouth and come out yet), if Big C wants to take Baby C to his families church this Sunday. The spirit moved him and he took her last year....I think I found more joy hearing all the excitement in all of their stories when they got home, then had I been there. Hearing how all of the old parishioners would stop and stare at Baby C and exclaim how much she looks like her beloved grandmother....how her Uncle is a head figure in the church and called out Baby C's name letting the congregation know how proud he was that his great niece and nephew were there. How before the service started he sought out Baby C gave her $20 and a big hug and showed her off to the congregation and how Baby C ceremonially put pack some of the money into the collection plate when it came around.....memories that seem to last a lifetime. All that's missing are the pictures that I would have taken had I been there, but I have all of my own pictures in my head.

If he does take her to church...I surely don't have an Easter dress. <insert big sigh>

When I'm trying to blog I always go through the pictures on my phone. When they say "Pictures speak a thousand words" no truer word has ever been said. I just scroll and my life literally comes to life...everything I've done and possibly taken for granted appears.

We went to see the movie "Home" and now Baby C has to write a book report and she chose the book "Home". She's reading so well and doing so well in school I couldn't tell her "No" on her book choice. Though I wish she'd picked a book that would have challenged her a little more and one that she hadn't seen the movie for before hand. But I'm blessed and happy that she's excited to read it to begin with.

Last night as I was putting dinner on the plates, Baby C said to me "Mom why do you always make our plates and get everything ready for us before you get your own food and sit down"...I told her that I was glad that she noticed that...she said she'd noticed it a long time ago but never said anything. I told her a good mother always makes sure her family it taken care of before they take care of themselves. I hope that lives with her for life.

How could I forget that my latest god son was finally born! I now have 4 god children and this will be Big C's first god son!