colliemommie | (no subject)

I'm turning into the frakking bluebird of happiness over here. Watch, I've probably fallen pregnant and this is the calm before the year-long hormonal storm.

Bruce seems to be starting on the flu bug, not that he seems to realize it.
Him- "I don't have the flu."
Me- "Are you achy, tired, irritable, and do you have a headache, chills and light sensitivity?"
Him- "yes. All of those."
Me- "That's what the flu is."

But because I am happy for no reason, I tucked him into bed, made him some iced tea, and hold him to rest and watch Burn Notice while I cleaned up the kitchen, and I'll be in to bed at ten. Even when he snapped at me. Because instead of my brain going "oh gosh, he's mad at me, quick, fix it!!!" Or "what the fuck is wrong with you buddy? Get over yourself!", it went "he must really be feeling bad to be so cranky". My jerk brain is apparently on vacation.

Had an impromptu playgroup/choir practice/zabava today at church. We missed last week's playgroup because of weather, and rescheduled for this week. Then we decided it was a good chance to go over the Presanctified Service for the Great Fast

(We say Great Fast instead of Lent. Presanctified is a psalm and communion service that is done the first Monday and every Wednesday of the Fast. It's called Presanctified because the Eucharist is not consecrated during the ceremony; it's been previously blessed. Makes the service much shorter, is appropriate for strict fasting days, and also means you don't need a priest, just a deacon, which can be a great advantage.)

I've never done Ukrainian Presanctified before, just Ruthenian, and it's just different enough that I would not want to pick it up on the fly. So the plan was to let the kids play and the four of us ladies would review things for Monday.

Then every one of us brought treats. We generally take turns, but this was not on the schedule. So we had our own little carnevale/zabava and ate snackies and had tons of fun. I had an eclair and it was glorious.

Then we ended up taking all the curtains down while we were on a sugar high. The windows are set very high in the social room, and they are glass block, so all the curtains really do is make the room very dark. They're in the back of my car. We're waiting to see if anyone 1.) notices and 2.) complains. If they do, well I just took them home to wash them. I think I have attained the status of Church Lady. Not sure how I feel about that. ;-)