leading up to Wed April 12

On Monday night, we went to the cathedral to represent our parish at the Chrism mass (the blessing of the oils that are used in the church all year).  It was wonderful! We got to sit right up front and got to see everything that was going on.  We we will be presenting the oils to our parish community at the Holy Thursday liturgy.

We had our outdoor playgroup on Tuesday. The maple trees are no longer tapped, but since it was warm, the trees were dripping. The kids rigged this up to catch the maple water. Yummy!

On Wednesday, we spent the morning doing some free reads. We are reading Caleb's Story, continuing on with The Wizard of Oz and we started Gillian Cross' The Odyssey. Then, we went out for the afternoon to do some nature study. We saw this little guy slither past us. The garter snake wandered about for a good 5 minutes before slithering into the creek. We saw him swim away, with his little head up out of the water. It was quite something!

We painted and sat and wandered for a few hours at the creek bank.

And then Fina played outside all evening with her little neighbourhood friends.

We are really looking forward to celebrating the Triduum this year. We have two adults being baptised in our church at the Easter Vigil (one is Fina's little friend's mom) and it is very exciting!