No permanent damage, but it'll take a while to fully recover.
Blessedly, my sister was still here when it happened, and she is staying a few extra weeks to help out.
Also, we went to the new Adventist hospital in White Oak, and it was "towel swan" level of swanky. We highly recommend it!
so I might hear my children pray.
well, today is just that kind of day.
Because of the pandemic, it's been 2 years since we last saw her, and because she usually went to NJ to stay with our parents, it's been a while since she's been in Maryland.
Would you believe she made it herself?!
I gave her some help, but it's her first major sewing project.
Just stunning, really, but it could be the model.
Not that I'm biased or anything (Get it, bias! Sewing pun!)
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The Lord's descent into hell  stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the earth was in terror and was still, because God slept in the flesh and raised up those who were sleeping from the ages. God has died in the flesh, and the underworld has trembled. Truly he goes to seek out our first parent like a lost sheep; he wishes to visit those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, he who is God, and Adam's son. The Lord goes in to them holding his victorious weapon, his cross. When Adam, the first created man, sees him, he strikes his breast in terror and calls out to all: 'My Lord be with you all.' And Christ in reply says to Adam: ‘And with your spirit.’ And grasping his hand he raises him up, saying: ‘Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light. ‘I am your God, who for your sake became your son, who for you and your descendants now speak and command with authority those in prison: Come forth, and those in darkness: Have light, and those who sleep: Rise. ‘I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person. ‘For you, I your God became your son; for you, I the Master took on your form; that of slave; for you, I who am above the heavens came on earth and under the earth; for you, man, I became as a man without help, free among the dead; for you, who left a garden, I was handed over to Jews from a garden and crucified in a garden.  ‘Look at the spittle on my face, which I received because of you, in order to restore you to that first divine inbreathing at creation. See the blows on my cheeks, which I accepted in order to refashion your distorted form to my own image. 'See the scourging of my back, which I accepted in order to disperse the load
of your sins which was laid upon your back. See my hands nailed to the tree for
a good purpose, for you, who stretched out your hand to the tree for an evil
one. `I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side, for you, who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side healed the pain of your side; my sleep will release you from your sleep in Hades; my sword has checked the sword which was turned against you.
 "The cherubim throne has been prepared, the bearers are ready and waiting, the bridal chamber is in order, the food is provided, the everlasting houses and rooms are in readiness; the treasures of good things have been opened; the kingdom of heaven has been prepared before the ages." HT: The Vatican (From the Office of Readings for today) |
After more than a decade, my sister was able to canonically establish her order!!
She's the one on the left; isn't she beautiful!!
In order to found an order, the new foundress (and the first few sisters) are formed by an established order, in this case the order my other sister is in: the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT).
The superior of that order is the sister in gray.
They made their new vows on the feast of the Annunciation, just about this time last week!
I can't tell you how happy and proud I am of her - this is so much more exciting, even than when she got her doctorate.
It's been such an incredible blessing to accompany her on this journey. Please say a prayer for her and her new order!
We tried making rice crispie treats with puffed wheat (and added chocolate and peanut butter chips).
They were pretty good! Not as crispy, but still very tasty, and we shaped them into giant wheat seed shapes, so that was.. Extra thematic!
Palm Sunday has been a source of some of our strangest Gospel Desserts. My favorite is still the time I scooped ice cream directly into the hands of the Zoomlians for Palm Sundaes.
I can't believe that it never occurred to me: we get actual food from palm trees.
I made a date cake! I would have gone with coconut, but we have a few who are not coconut fans.
Anyway, mission accomplished for another Lent, next Sunday is Easter!!
I'm not a seamstress by any stretch, but I can make pillowcases for my window seat decorative pillows out of any pretty fabric that catches my eye.
Because sewing 3 sides of a rectangle is something I can do!
I realized this specifically when I saw the Art Deco stained glass fabrics at JoAnn's (I don't get paid by them, just mentioning it in case you love the fabric).
So now I have a knitting bag for my complicated knitting project (for waiting rooms and audiobooks) and one for my simple knitting project (for knitting during movies).
3. In actual fact, I am helping Klenda on a really fabulous sewing project of hers... but I'll have to wait for it to be done to show you. It's a bit nerve wracking to be the expert advice on something when you are seriously NOT an expert. It helps to have Mumpy on board. She has forgotten much more about sewing than I am ever likely to know.
I think it's a much nicer picture than a picture of the sewer back up in our basement.
Or me cleaning it up.
But, I tell myself, is it really Lent if you don't have some sort of unpleasant minor disaster to offer up?
They are truly some of my favorite people in the world, and we have so much fun together!
Well. My dad really did like it, but my mom totally fell in love with Baby Yoda/Grogu!
We got her a doll for Christmas, and had fun binge watching all the episodes.
Actually, my sister, now vaccinated, is coming for her home visit next month, and we'll probably watch them all again with her!
7. I should mention that my sister is a SOLT sister out in North Dakota, coming on a home visit, as opposed to getting out jail or something.
I haven't seen her in nearly 2 years because of the pandemic, so I'm super excited!
There's just something special about the bond between sisters!
More fun with Kelly!
