Easter Observations 2011

Easter Sunday, a joyous occasion for Christians around the world. This morning, when I was getting the ham ready for the world, the thought struck me that this would be unclean in the Jewish Law. Having ham for lunch was not in their book, and their I was before church, rubbing my hands all over that spiral cut ham.

We went to the 9:30 church service which was a little hard for me to explain to Cap.

Cap, "Are we going to early church?"

Me, "No, we are not going to early church, but we are going earlier than normal."

Cap, "The only time we go to early church is when I am singing."

Me, "That is correct, but we are not going to sunday school this morning just to church."

Cap, "So we are going to Early Church."

At church I saw some interesting things. The guy setting next to me was checking his email on his blackberry, and I do not me just a glance, he was reading it. There was a lady a couple of rows in front of me that had here Super Grande Starbuck coffee cup with her. Last, but certainly not least, was the adult male (age between 24 and 35) that had a beard, was wearing a yellow shirt, and pruple shorts. Well, just like me, at least they all came to church this morning.

Saturday, April 23, Schedule

7:00 - Awoke
7:05 - Put on Sandals
7:10 - Washed fruit for breakfast
7:15 - Let Ella out of her room
7:25 - Began mixing the homemade (from scratch) whole wheat waffle mix
8:00 - Served Breakfast with Amy's help
8:20 - Washing Dishes
8:45 - Getting ready to head to soccer field.
9:15 - Leaving for soccer fields, have water for everyone, 2 cameras, 4 chairs, 2 kids, 1 soccer play
11:45 - Leaving soccer fields
12:00 - Fire up grill upon arrival
12:01 - Put Squash in Oven
12:02 - Burgers on Grill
12:30 - Run out of propane - burgers finished on the skillet
12:55 - leaving with Cap to attend birthday party.
1:15 - Arrive at party
3:00 - leave party, heading home
3:05 - Stop at Randall's to by a couple of things for Amy.
3:25 - Arrive home, Ella is awake, and has not rested much.
4: 25 - cutting up veggies for Shrimp fried rice
5:34 - Serving Shrimp Fired Rice
6:10 - Kids feed, kitchen cleaned, sit down to read book.
7:10 - Help Ella and Cap with Shampoo in their hair.
7:30 - Story time
8:30 - Leave for Store (need propane, dish soap and Tylenol.
9:20 - Arrive at home
9:45 - Help with the dishes
Current Status - sitting on back porch, still wearing my sandals... ...I am tired!

A day in picture 4/18/11

A day in pictures from the BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13117243

it begins with a couple of people leaving a music festival in California. The ground is littered with empty water bottles.

it ends with a photo of a what appears to be a cherry tree in blossom sticking out of an overturned car in Japan.

Waffles

Tonight for supper the kids wanted Waffles, so Amy and I made them Waffles. They were pretty good if I say so myself. One of my favorite meals growing up on cold days was waffles, biscuits and gravy, or pancakes and an omelet for dinner on cold snowy nights. Now that I am south of I-10, there is not much snow or many cold nights. It was really Cap's idea to have them, and I probably would have said no, but Ella has a cold.

Ella and I laid down in our bed today and watch Maisy, with english subtitles, and spanish voice. It was nice, afterwards she went and had a nap.

Cap had a soccer game, he has decided that his favorite position is goalie. While he did not say it, I think it is because there is less running up and down the field while playing that position.

German Chocolate Cake

I had a busy weekend in the kitchen, which was fine with me. We only ate out once, on Sunday, after church. I did determine that it takes less time to make Hamburger, Shrimp Fried Rice, and Grilled chicken, than baking a German Chocolate Cake from scratch. Thats right boys and girls, eat your heart out because I can make one from scratch. I also made some cinnamon raise bread this weekend, which was very tasty. The kids are both in bed asleep, which is where I will be heading shortly. McMurry University did name a new mascot, we are know the McMurry War Hawks. If you ask me, I find this more offensive than the Indians, any day of the week and twice on sunday. That is all that I have to report tonight, nothing too deep or thought provoking.

Cap Playing Soccer

Cap Playing Soccer, a photo by Germburner on Flickr.

This weekend was the first game of the season. This year Cap is on the Rockets, and in this picture he is playing Goalie (a word that I don't know how to spell.)

Strawberry Oreo Ice Cream

Tonight after we had the hamburgers, and potatoes that I cooked, we set off in search of desert. An adventure it was not as we knew the destination before we left. Sweet Things Ice Cream, where I had a single scoop of Strawberry Oreo, in a cup. I prefer the cup as it does not make much of a mess. The ice cream was really good, it was a combination of the fruity strawberry sweetness, and the deep chocolate sweetness that comes from the oreo's.

No iPod

I have listened to my iPod going to sleep almost every night since October 28, 2008. This is of course with a few exceptions. This past week started off with a potential disaster in this respect. I left town on a 5 day business trip, and realize as I was leaving town that my iPod was in plugged into the computer on the desk. To go back and get it would have costed about 1 hours driving time, leaving me to have to make a decision. I could go back and get the little boggier, or see what it was like without it. On the plus side, I knew that I had packed the earbuds, so at the least I could put them in my ear to fake it. I chose to risk it, and carried on my travels without the iPod. I hit pay-dirt the first two nights because the hotel had cable music channels. The last three nights, I used my computer and Pandora to play some music.

Aside from the sleep, I use the iPod to listen to music or pod cast when I tire of the audiobook I am listening to. I was forced to use the seek button and listen to the FM radio during these periods.