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Easter Update
Apr. 17th, 2006 09:34 amLook! A real entry! No quizzes or memes or anything... just real typing, right out of my head.
It's amazing what a long weekend away from work will do for your mental health.
Easter was extremely low key. On Friday we putter-cleaned, rented movies and just veged. On Saturday we went to brunch with friends, went for a walk, then D went for a ride on the motorcycle with Shane and his new motorcycle, so I got some real cleaning done - vacuumed, two loads of laundry, more tidying.
We had friends over for dinner/study party that night. Well, our friends studied - I read my book and D played on the internet. I'm reading The Historian right now. It took me some time to get into it, but now I'm totally addicted. It's a historian researching her father's run-ins with Dracula. It's all first person, two POVs, which is, I think, why I was having trouble getting into it, but the actually plot and story is great!
Sunday we slept in. We could opt out of church, so we did. Munn's United is small despite the renovations, and it was Easter Sunday + Confirmation, so I couldn't bear to crowd in with everyone else. So we didn't see Eric (my youngest cousin and the only one who is still shorter than me) get confirmed, but I know how it goes.
We got to Oakville at 1ish for lunch. All the Garniss's except for a couple of the girlfriends and half the Parsons were there, so the house was packed. The Garniss's dominated the conversation, as usual. The Parsons are a little... stuffy and prim, so we livened up their Easter for them.
The kids (being age 13 to 30, apparently) watched movies in the basement, then gifts for the April birthdays (Mom, Uncle Doug, Cousin Johnathon and John Parsons) and for Eric's confirmation. We left after gifts and were home by 6. 4 hours is plenty of time when the house is that crowded.
Between dinner and dessert, Eric read the creed he wrote. I did the same thing when I was confirmed (along with my brother and my cousin - real family affair, that one). Using the original Apostolic Creed and the updated United Church creed, write your own creed - basically what God gives you, what you learn, what you want your life to be about.
Eric's was really good. A full page, which is pretty good for a 13-year-old boy. It also very much summed up the teachings of the United Church, which made me snicker. The UCC is a very choose your own adventure church. The Bible is a metaphor, and the reader picks out the things that are most important to them, with an obvious emphasis on equality, freedom of choice, and "love thy neighbour". Eric's Creed included lines like "we don't know if you exist, but we hope you do." It was very inclusive. I really liked it - thought it summed up what I was taught at church very well. Lynn, the lay minister at Munn's, came to the Parsons's dinner, and she gave Eric a framed copy of his creed for his confirmation gift, which I thought was very nice.
Anyway, I had a nap when we got home, then we veged in front of the TV and went to be early.
Hope you all had a good Easter as well.
It's amazing what a long weekend away from work will do for your mental health.
Easter was extremely low key. On Friday we putter-cleaned, rented movies and just veged. On Saturday we went to brunch with friends, went for a walk, then D went for a ride on the motorcycle with Shane and his new motorcycle, so I got some real cleaning done - vacuumed, two loads of laundry, more tidying.
We had friends over for dinner/study party that night. Well, our friends studied - I read my book and D played on the internet. I'm reading The Historian right now. It took me some time to get into it, but now I'm totally addicted. It's a historian researching her father's run-ins with Dracula. It's all first person, two POVs, which is, I think, why I was having trouble getting into it, but the actually plot and story is great!
Sunday we slept in. We could opt out of church, so we did. Munn's United is small despite the renovations, and it was Easter Sunday + Confirmation, so I couldn't bear to crowd in with everyone else. So we didn't see Eric (my youngest cousin and the only one who is still shorter than me) get confirmed, but I know how it goes.
We got to Oakville at 1ish for lunch. All the Garniss's except for a couple of the girlfriends and half the Parsons were there, so the house was packed. The Garniss's dominated the conversation, as usual. The Parsons are a little... stuffy and prim, so we livened up their Easter for them.
The kids (being age 13 to 30, apparently) watched movies in the basement, then gifts for the April birthdays (Mom, Uncle Doug, Cousin Johnathon and John Parsons) and for Eric's confirmation. We left after gifts and were home by 6. 4 hours is plenty of time when the house is that crowded.
Between dinner and dessert, Eric read the creed he wrote. I did the same thing when I was confirmed (along with my brother and my cousin - real family affair, that one). Using the original Apostolic Creed and the updated United Church creed, write your own creed - basically what God gives you, what you learn, what you want your life to be about.
Eric's was really good. A full page, which is pretty good for a 13-year-old boy. It also very much summed up the teachings of the United Church, which made me snicker. The UCC is a very choose your own adventure church. The Bible is a metaphor, and the reader picks out the things that are most important to them, with an obvious emphasis on equality, freedom of choice, and "love thy neighbour". Eric's Creed included lines like "we don't know if you exist, but we hope you do." It was very inclusive. I really liked it - thought it summed up what I was taught at church very well. Lynn, the lay minister at Munn's, came to the Parsons's dinner, and she gave Eric a framed copy of his creed for his confirmation gift, which I thought was very nice.
Anyway, I had a nap when we got home, then we veged in front of the TV and went to be early.
Hope you all had a good Easter as well.
