St Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day is always fun at our house. We are mostly Irish with lots of other things mixed in and we love St Patrick! So tonight as usual we had a nice dinner with soda bread, mashed potatoes and other yummy things. We listened to various sorts of Irish/celtic music and had lots of fun.

St Brigid is another Irish saint I love

Also today I had an interesting car adventure! One of the radiator hoses split which led to me driving down the interstate blowing white smoke. I pulled over and called dad and he came to look at it and bring us home. Luckily it was an quick and easy fix and I was only 10 miles from home.

Glory to God For All Things
Cecilia <3

Happy Day

Yesterday was one of the happiest days I have had in a while! I had a mildly good piano lesson and then we went to church. There was a chrismation (similar to confirmation) of a woman who has been coming to church for just under a year. It was truly beautiful! She was glowing and beaming and never looked happier. I am so grateful that I got to be there for her special moment. It reminded me of the day my family was received into the Church, one of the happiest days of my life!
After church Mom, Sus, and I went out to eat indian food! YUM!!!!! Then we went shopping and enjoyed ourselves tons! Then we drove home in my freezing car!
Because we had been gone all afternoon Sus had not checked her email all day. When she got home she checked her email and saw that she was accepted to the very competitive biomedical research internship. I am so happy and thrilled for her. It is such an exciting opportunity that will shape her future! Congrats Sus!!!!!!! <3
Glory to God For All Things
Cecilia <3

Family!

So today I am very frustrated and tired of my siblings! I am sure you know the feeling! So I thought I might write and remind myself that they can be awesome too!
Badness has been really bored lately. His solution to boredom is seeing what everybody else in the house is doing and then repeating the whole process in 15 minutes. This means that every 15 minutes or so I get a hug, a kiss, a story, or a joke. It can get annoying but it is so special. It seems like every week get busier and I see him less and less so the 2 minutes that he and I share are good!
Rabbit is positive all the time. She is always spotting positive things in our life and it makes me happy.
Bean is the sweetest of us all without a doubt! He will do anything if it will make you feel better. He also gives the best hugs ever!
Shark is hilarious! He can make anything funny. He has also recently become one of my best friends, something I never expected!
Sus can make me laugh anytime. She can explain how I am feeling to other people when they just don't get it. She bakes me cookies if I am having a bad day and puts up with my random hyper fits at 11:30 at night.
I feel much better now.
Thanks for listening! I am really enjoying blogging more frequently!
Glory to God For All Things
Cecilia<3

P.S. I can't get the preview to load so if my formatting is terrible I apologize! C

March!

Happy March! Oh how I wish that I could say happy spring too! I am really hoping that after this week spring will be here! Right now I am enduring great suffering because Sus and I made chocolate cookie bars and the whole house smells like cookies! But because they are bars there is no way to sneak one away and it is a serious problem!!
Other than suffering from cookie deprivation I am having a good week! I babysat, baked, cleaned, read, studied, got sick, got better, volunteered, and studied more! That sounds kind of boring but boring is good sometimes! I was really glad to be able to sit and read this week. It has been a while since that has happened and I really miss it! I really want to reread two of my favorite books (And The Ladies of The Club and The Book Thief) really soon! That reminds me I need to find them!
Sunday was the Sunday of Orthodoxy. We commemorate the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical Council to uphold the use of holy icons in Orthodox worship on the 1st Sunday in lent. I really love the icon of The Sunday of Orthodoxy (left) it is so beautiful!
Glory to God For All Things
Cecilia <3