We celebrated the Passover with the boys today. G and I have gone through the Christian Seder, but haven't been able to do it since we've had kids. Last night there was a kids show on Christian tv with puppets about Passover, and Jer liked it. At the last minute we decided to try it. I blocked off the very end of the day and headed over to Market Street to buy some horseradish and matzah. G made a roast and had an egg boiled.
We have really good guides that go through the Passover meal and point out all the Christian symbolism in it. I just briefly looked for one on the web and found this one. I quickly read through it, and it isn't as good as the one we have. It doesn't emphasize the way the matzah is pierced and striped just as Jesus was pierced and striped for us.
I bought that Seder plate a couple of years ago, and this is the first time we got to use it. Lucky for us Gray needed a late afternoon nap. He slept up until the very end. I don't think we could have gotten through it if he had been awake. Toward the end we skipped a paragraph or two because the boys were getting squirmy. The last thing you are supposed to eat is the afikoman (the matzah) so the taste stays in your mouth. I forgot that and bought lolly pops as a treat for getting through the seder. When Gray got up, we gave him his dinner, and then he got a lolly pop too. I think it's okay.
Update: I just did a blog search for Maundy Thursday and found some neat Christian blogs. I found this one called First Take the Blog Out of Your Own Eye. If you click on the April archives he has all the stations of the cross summarized.
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It's so wonderful seeing Jer and Jon's smiling faces. That last one of Gray is such a keeper. He's definitely got some Bings - at least he has my complexion I think, which hopefully will not turn out to haunt him as a teen. You look marvelous, just like when you were in optometry school
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