Getting Ready for Easter

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Saturday was a busy day for us. We tried to get up early, but the entire Oh family slept in until 8:30am – a first since Sarah was born. I don’t know if it was the rainy weather or just tiredness, but none of us could wake up.

Sarah had a doctor’s appt. in the morning for her 1 year checkup. We loaded up into our trusty Cr-V only to find that the battery was dead due to the back window being partially open and making the back light stay on for who knows how long. So off I went to get the jumper cables and our Civic. The jump didn’t take long at all, but I did get dirty and soaked from the downpour. We made it to the dr’s office on time and for the first time ever, Sarah cried when getting checked up. She didn’t enjoy the weighing, the measuring and especially the two vaccination shots. A week after her 1 year birthday, Sarah weighed in at 22lbs 15oz. with a height/length of 29 1/2 inches. Everything in the 75th percentile for her age.

We then went to the children’s eye dr’s office to make an appointment for a checkup. Sarah has been squinting every so often and when we mentioned it to the pediatrician, she said that either Sarah is playing or has some issue. In either case, it wouldn’t be bad to get it checked out. We made an appt. for sometime in May and got back into the pouring rain.

Well it turned out that our trusty Cr-V needed gas badly so I went to my local Citgo where I found that their awning didn’t block any rain at all. So for the entire time of filling up my totally empty car, I got soaked AGAIN. Not only that, gas spilled all over my pants. 🙁

We looked at the time and it was a little before 1pm and we had to go to Queens to get food blessed in the traditional Polish way. I wasn’t sure when the food blessing was going to happen at the RC church we were going to, but wanted to get there early just in case, the blessings stopped at a certain time. We rushed back home where Blanka quickly made up our Easter food basket and Sarah’s. We plugged the route into our GPS and drove on in the rain. The rain wasn’t too bad, but the directions were horrible. My Garmin decided to take us on local roads for most of the way and it seemed that there was a red light every 20 feet. HORRIBLE. So after 30 minutes of driving, we finally made it to church. We waited in the church for half an hour to get the food blessed. It was a bit different, but we were glad to get some Easter preparation done.

We drove home tired, hungry, wet but happy. We managed to get everything important done in what seemed to be a short day. By the time we got home and dried up, we looked outside and what was once a downpour was a light sprinkle. Go figure. Some Easter 2009 pics here.

Sarah’s Easter Basket

Sarah at church waiting to get her food blessed.