I think I lost an hour somewhere in the rush...
This was a busy weekend. frostmuffin decided to go back to Amtgard again. That is a live-action role-playing club. She was too sick to attend in the Fall while she had the sinusitis, and was reluctant to return becuase she was too out-of-shape to fight much, so she hadn't been there since September or October. She wanted me along because going with someone is more fun.
So I got up early Saturday and baked cookies for church and Amtgard. Frostmuffin had to find where she had left her court garb (that meeting was midreign, a more formal event with less fighting than usual). My court garb, a simple tabard, is used less than hers, so I knew exactly where it was.
At first, we thought that our Amtgard chapter, Barony of the Solstice, had invited another chapter to visit, because there were many people in medieval costume at the picnic area of Lane Manor Park. But we recognized no faces there, so we went over to the usual spot away from the picnic area. Turned out a totally separate LARP group, Daggerthorn, was also using the park. Solstice was familiar people with a few new faces. And Ben, Celwyn's toddler son, was taller.
After Amtgard, we rushed over to church for the Saturday service. Pastor Bill is juggling his household due to his engagement to Vicar Arwyn. Her service to a local church ended this weekend. She had to move out of the parish housing there to let the new pastor move in. Pastor Bill moved into an apartment and let Vicar Arwyn move into the parish house at our church. I can understand them not living together before their wedding in June, because pastors have high standards for respectibility, but we wondered why Bill was taking the apartment instead of Arwyn. The answer was that whoever gets the parish house has to take care of both pets--Bill's dog and Arwyn's cat--and Bill is allergic to the cat.
Today's Sunday School lesson covered Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday. I do that lesson a week early because we have an Easter Egg hunt on Palm Sunday. I made new cards for the Apples to Apples game on a Holy Week theme, to get my students more familiar with the events. I thought I would have to make only a dozen cards to replace the green-apple cards. Frostmuffin pointed out that the green-apple cards were adjectives, and my Holy-Week events were nouns. I instead had to replace the red-apple cards, the nouns, which required four times as many cards. Oops. Making 48 cards took two more hours and I had to expand the theme to all the lessons I did in 2006 rather than just today's lesson.
The new Sunday School room was finished, so we moved into it. The youth room had been split into two classrooms by a new wall. That wall consisting of studs with panelling on each side, so sound travels through it easily. My class was all boys today, and we were noisy and disturbed the adult class in the other room. Gail said that the yelling she could tolerate, but the bouncing off the walls was too much. The new classroom also had a window facing the playground. During the Apples to Apples game, my students noticed another class out in the playground, and they wanted to go out too. I let them. At least the adult class had some quiet then.
Between modifying the Apples to Apples game and Daylight Savings Time, I had only five and a half hours of sleep, so I have been napping this afternoon.
Erin Schram
So I got up early Saturday and baked cookies for church and Amtgard. Frostmuffin had to find where she had left her court garb (that meeting was midreign, a more formal event with less fighting than usual). My court garb, a simple tabard, is used less than hers, so I knew exactly where it was.
At first, we thought that our Amtgard chapter, Barony of the Solstice, had invited another chapter to visit, because there were many people in medieval costume at the picnic area of Lane Manor Park. But we recognized no faces there, so we went over to the usual spot away from the picnic area. Turned out a totally separate LARP group, Daggerthorn, was also using the park. Solstice was familiar people with a few new faces. And Ben, Celwyn's toddler son, was taller.
After Amtgard, we rushed over to church for the Saturday service. Pastor Bill is juggling his household due to his engagement to Vicar Arwyn. Her service to a local church ended this weekend. She had to move out of the parish housing there to let the new pastor move in. Pastor Bill moved into an apartment and let Vicar Arwyn move into the parish house at our church. I can understand them not living together before their wedding in June, because pastors have high standards for respectibility, but we wondered why Bill was taking the apartment instead of Arwyn. The answer was that whoever gets the parish house has to take care of both pets--Bill's dog and Arwyn's cat--and Bill is allergic to the cat.
Today's Sunday School lesson covered Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday. I do that lesson a week early because we have an Easter Egg hunt on Palm Sunday. I made new cards for the Apples to Apples game on a Holy Week theme, to get my students more familiar with the events. I thought I would have to make only a dozen cards to replace the green-apple cards. Frostmuffin pointed out that the green-apple cards were adjectives, and my Holy-Week events were nouns. I instead had to replace the red-apple cards, the nouns, which required four times as many cards. Oops. Making 48 cards took two more hours and I had to expand the theme to all the lessons I did in 2006 rather than just today's lesson.
The new Sunday School room was finished, so we moved into it. The youth room had been split into two classrooms by a new wall. That wall consisting of studs with panelling on each side, so sound travels through it easily. My class was all boys today, and we were noisy and disturbed the adult class in the other room. Gail said that the yelling she could tolerate, but the bouncing off the walls was too much. The new classroom also had a window facing the playground. During the Apples to Apples game, my students noticed another class out in the playground, and they wanted to go out too. I let them. At least the adult class had some quiet then.
Between modifying the Apples to Apples game and Daylight Savings Time, I had only five and a half hours of sleep, so I have been napping this afternoon.
Erin Schram