Spaghetti and Scrutinies

Today was a big day at our church: The day of my 1st of 3 scrutinies, followed by our spaghetti lunch! During the ceremony, there was a dispute about whether the Elect should stand up or continue to kneal in front of Fr. Andrew....we unfortunatley settled on the latter, and all wound up with very sore knees. I, of course looked stunning in my blue pants, over-ripe lime green blouse and orange sweater - especially while surrounded by all that lenten purple and the red carpets...

After mass (and the blood re-entered the bottom half of my legs), we all went downstairs for our fundraising Spaghetti lunch - which was fun! It became sorely evident that I was not in a very Italian parish (the meaning of the word "Al Dente" was kind of lost on the kitchen volunteers), but hey, when your main ingredients are Love and Ketchup, you can't be too picky! I'll be honest, it was still better than anything I could make!

I was amazed at the amout of food they gave us for $5.00 - we got a huge plate of spaghetti with meatballs and sauce, PLUS a salad (I overdid it on the Thousand Island dressing), a homemade pretzel, a juice box and dessert afterwards! The pretzels were hand made by the little kids during sunday school - and they tasted wonderful! (They didn't quite look like pretzels - mine was shaped like a Q, but the flavour was all there!) Plus, the dessert was a big bowl of Neapolotain Icecream with chocolate syrup! What could be better!?!?

I had a great time and I'm looking forward to learning the stations of the cross next wednesday...and aparently performing them the following friday!