March is always a fickle month; the proof of this is the weather today, 34 degrees when I woke up. It’s been cool, cloudy and windy all day. Maybe the cooler weather will keep the grass from growing so fast– I already need to mow my lawn! I’m putting it off, because once I start, I’ll be mowing until October. But if I don’t do it in the next day or two, it will be too long for my reel mower…
Right now I’m sitting at the box office at the theatre guild, and sales are not quite non-existent. Hopefully they will pick up later this week; our little group needs the money from this show badly . Anticipating slow sales, I hauled along my laptop, and I’ve had some uninterrupted time to work on things. I’ve written my little essay for my scholarship application, which I hope to mail off tomorrow and be done with. I’ve also worked on my lesson plans and modified Seder for class Wednesday evening, so that’s almost done. I’m working to keep the focus on how the Seder relates to our own Eucharistic Liturgy, while hopefully giving the kids a taste of how the New Covenant proceeds from the Old. All this while not running too long or boring them.
Rather than the usual pizza snack, I’m having them munch on our little Passover meal while we talk about it. I spent some time searching for recipes for unleavened bread. 3 years ago, when I first did my much-too-complicated Seder, I found a really nice, tasty recipe for unleavened bread. I actually used it for the Last Supper scene in Godspell, which our theatre guild was doing at the time. It’s possible I wrote it down somewhere, but so far I have not been able to find it, though I’ve found a few that look similar. I also need to get apples and nuts for charoseth, and of course hard-boiled eggs, and grape juice. Maybe celery for the bitter herbs. I won’t do the horseradish, last time I did and the kids did NOT like it. Too hot!
Since I spent so much time on Sunday reading, I was feeling a little stressed and rather behind on things, so having this time to work on stuff has been very nice. Still, I wouldn’t mind doing a few sales…
