Timing: A Strange Spring

You gotta love the lunar calendar upon which the date for Easter is set. This year Easter fell on March 23 - which is the second earliest date possible for an Easter Sunday. Therefore Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) began barely six weeks after Christmas on February 6!

Needless to say, this kind of switches things around a bit. Last year, during S's spring break, we took a vacation to visit S's aunt and cousins who live between Baltimore and Washington (and of course to see the sights). That didn't work this year because of Holy Week and spring break falling the same week (my choir director would never go for that, and frankly the Maundy Thursday service is one of my favorites). Maybe we'll go in October or next March instead, depending on the economy and airline fares.

Then of course are all the rehearsals in preparation for Easter and Holy Week. It's almost as busy a choir season as Christmas.

On top of that, I am serving on the talk team for a Walk to Emmaus weekend in June, which means I have to prepare a talk and present it to the team. I'm scheduled to give it on April 5.

And I haven't even done my taxes yet!