Has your kid ever done this?

My daughter Katie was alone at the table finishing her dinner tonight. I was washing the dishes, Annette was on the computer, Michael was upstairs getting his pj's on, and Nicholas was, well, being a crazy one-year-old. So I come out to the table to get the dishes still there and what do I find?

She has been drinking from the maple syrup bottle. There is maple syrup on her shirt, in her hair. She has drunk AT LEAST FOUR OUNCES AND MAYBE MORE. She throws a crying fit that she does whenever she gets caught at something.

Amazingly enough, she hasn't thrown up and she's asleep. I really expected her to vomit. She was a little - OK, a lot - wired before bed, but she's asleep.

Today was our Renewal of Ordination Vows and Blessing of Oil service. It was, for lack of a better descriptor, very nice. One thing about Renewing Worship (the ELCA move toward a new worship resource) - it does have some really good hymns which are new and fresh. Sang a couple of Herman Steumpfle hymns and another based on John 3:16, which is not a "new" hymn but one that I've never heard before. And I thought RW would be all pop songs.

To pray and to write sermons - I hope to stay awake.

Easter at King's starts tomorrow.

The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified...