Holy Week, Batman!

This week will be a blur for us, as Easter play practice dominates the schedule, and a new series for the children's service looms for Sunday. We're getting to bed late again - all of us. It was a big day, filled with appointments and work:

1. Daddy finished his devotional, which was good. The printers are very kind, because they'll be turning this around in less than a week. Seriously, they've got to print 1,100 of these by Friday afternoon!

2. Mommy visited the oncologist again, which is always good. We'll see some good results later on in the week. We were sorry we couldn't bring Madison to see Dr. Locicero this time, though they've met before. Dr. Locicero was a big part of our lives for a time, helping Mommy through a really tough time in her life. Always upbeat, he kept the atmosphere positive.

3. Play practice. Madison has been at the church, and even working harder than some of the employees there! Here she is trying on a beard and a hairnet, which of course go quite lovely together. You can't see it in this photo, but she's cracking up under that beard. She had the whole "Moses" thing going on, wandering up and down the hall with her beard, hairnet, and a staff. Quite naturally, she'd find herself hugging all the people coming to Bible College this evening. It was a late night, but Mommy got a lot done today towards the performance, which is now only a few days away. Friday, the performance starts, and Easter Sunday is the first day of our new children's series "Exodus." Lots of work to do until then, and you can imagine that we'll both be ready for a good, long nap a week from today when it is all over with. Daddy is playing a Pharisee again, which means he gets to act cranky, which is essentially how he feels at the moment. I think after we all get a good night's rest, we'll be feeling a little more upbeat. Fortunately, tomorrow we get to sleep in a bit. I know Madison will be sleeping in - she was up really, really late tonight. It'll be good to get back to normal next week too.

4. The search continues: we've found another interesting house. Madison loves exploring a new house, and running around the large empty rooms. She loves looking out the windows, and this house seemed to have plenty of them. It also had some character: a bridge that led to an additional room. There was a lot of space in the kitchen, and a nice big living room as well. You can see from this picture that Daddy is taking a picture from upstairs, and there's Madison checking out the cabinets. It was a nice house, with a nice little creek in the back, and a nice sized deck, and of course the clincher: a front porch to put rocking chairs that you get from the Cracker Barrel. Naturally, if you get a rocking chair from anywhere else, it won't be as good! Anyway, Madison loved exploring the house, upstairs and downstairs. We took lots of pictures, and will be thinking about this one this week. Like I said earlier, there's a lot going on this week!