Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I am home from the Vigil Mass and enjoying some toast. The Easter Beagle has also visited our house and left treats for everyone. This year the Easter Beagle was smart enough to buy treats for herself; knowing that the Husband wouldn't remember to do that (and I do enjoy an Easter basket of my own).

The Mass was beautiful, as always, and I kept up the tradition of crying at the baptisms. I sang two wrong notes in my psalm. (No one noticed but me, but it will bug me for awhile.) The organist had a few moments where it sounded like she was playing with mittens on--not sure what's up with that. (I should be nicer, since it's Easter.)

It quit raining for long enough that we were able to light the Easter fire outside, however it was really windy and both of our Deacon's vestments almost caught fire. I was looking and we don't have a fire extinguisher outside--I hope that they both know "stop, drop and roll" since they almost had to do it tonight. The fire always reminds me of our old priest (whom I miss very much--he is retired) and the Vigil when it was raining and he decided to light the Easter fire in the church vestibule. It is a good thing that our church is 95% stone, or something would have caught fire. He later admitted that was a bad plan.

I was also at church early enough to see our priest filling the baptismal font with water from a bucket--it reminds you of how human the church can be.

I have to be back at church in less than 10 hours, so I'm going to hopefully go to sleep very soon.

Happy Easter to you all!