April 6, 2009

• Last week I, along with some other friends, had a giant used home school book sale.  The turn out was much better than I expected and most of us sold a lot.  I have TONS of stuff left and hope to sell it at another sort of local home school convention that is coming up in June.  The years are winding down for me...I say with some sadness.  When you have been doing something every day for 21 years....well...it is just going to be way different.  BUT, I still have a whole year plus left, so what am I mourning over already!?  Good grief...we have lots to do yet! 
  
  Will passed his driver's test this past Friday too.  He had his permit for almost a year.  We were not in any big hurry for him to take his test, so we took our time.  His dad took him driving lots of places and they practiced like crazy for the parallel parking part of the test.  Yay!!!  It all paid off.  I never am nervous driving with him...he is cautious and thinks first always. 
  
  Easter, already???  How did that happen?  Here is a neat tradition.  I like to go to the Moravian Easter Dawn Service which is held in a church building that was built by Moravian settlers in 1846.  The church is way in the country and even though the Moravians do not use that church building for their regular services, they do meet there once a year for this service.  This building is so neat...and old...wavy window glass and wooden floors and wooden pews that are separated in the middle.  It also has a very neat old pink pipe organ.  Oh!  I love to hear it being played.  At sunrise we leave the building and walk up a hill to the grave yard while the brass choir is playing and we sing hymns as the sun is coming up.  One time...oh please forgive me...but one time many many years ago, the pastor was praying and out of no where came a very loud cow mooing.  It was just one of those moments....where you know it is a serious moment but then your silly cousin is standing next to you and begins to giggle and you know how contagious that can be....oh me oh my!  Well..wouldn't you know I STILL remember that moment and when I am standing out there in the still of the morning...hoping a cow does not moo....I have to fight my giggles.
  After the service everyone meets in the little fellowship building and has Moravian Sugar Cake and coffee or tea. 
  
  While I am not a member of the Moravian Church, I still go.  I love the tradition and the history.  I love to hear the brass choir play the hymns of old.  I miss my aunts and uncles who use to always be there and now suddenly I am their age when I thought they were so "old."   Funny how that is.
  
  

  It is a new week and there is also a new photo contest.
  This week the subject is Silverware. 
  The pictures are up and they are good!
  I entered this week too. 
  
   Check them out and please vote for your favorite. 
  

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