Happy Easter! ("A Talk about water")

Cute Easter Eggs! Happy Easter Everyone!
(Photo: superkawaii.com)

First of all I would like to wish all of my visitors who happened to stumble upon my blog while browsing, as well as my friends whom read my blog from time to time a Happy Easter! I know you may not all be religious or whatsoever, but I do hope that the lively spirit of spring and the beautiful new view and life will brighten up your days!

Easter is the most important season within the church, last night, I attended my parish's Easter Vigil Mass and Fr. Bill, one of the priests at our church delivered his English homily which I thought I would share with you for a bit. If you are aware or maybe learned a few things or two about the Catholic religion, you may know about Baptism and the significance of water in this sacrament. Fr. Bill's homily talked about how water is very essential in each and everyone's life. This is a close summary of what he had said....

Fr. Bill:

"Water is very important, it gives life, provides for life, and can even destroy life. But let us focus on how water gives life to the earth. Think about the rain and snow, it falls to the ground allowing planted seeds to bloom and grow into food--providing all beings food and shelter. The oceans and the rivers are habitats of numerous sea life and provide drinking water for humans. See? Water is important."
 
"Water is also destructive, it can destroy homes--a bursting pipe or even floods can swipe or damage shelter, but you see, nothing exists without the presence of water, our bodies contain water."

He later on goes on speaking about the significance of water in Baptism, which I will not go further into.
I really liked this part of his homily, it is very philosophical, and it makes total sense! I thought I would just share a tiny bit with you all. :)

Once again, have a wonderful and fun Easter!

Little Stars

"Customized Oreos"-- An April Fools Day Memory

Cute Oreos and Milk--MMM!
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To be honest, I am not really a big fan of April Fools day, but surprisingly, since this year, I didn't really get 'pranked' I am quite missing the fun and laughter. (THANKS homework! >.<) Thinking back about the past April Fools day experiences I have had really brings back the smiles and laughter. Today, I will be sharing with you an "April Fools Day" memory.

Back when I was in junior high (yes, I am getting old unfortunately!!!), I attended a Youth Retreat with my parish, and it so happened that the Retreat landed on April Fools day. Hmmm can you do the math?

A group of pre-teens and high school teenagers + April fools Day= PRANK TIME!

Yup! So as a whole group of girls we decided that we would prank all the the guys whom were also at the retreat. I am not sure if you guys have tried this prank already, but it seems like it works pretty well. So, you might be wondering what kind of a prank we did.......  that's right, the good old OREO cookie prank. So you know how the cream filling in the original Oreo cookie looks very much like white mint tooth paste? YEAH that's right, we took a whole pack of Oreo cookies and scraped off the cream filling of each and filled it with crest white mint toothpaste--YUM YUM (>.<)!

So, After much effort of trying to make it seem like we didn't touch the cookies, we put them back in the package and went to the lodge area where all the boys were chilling. We set the pack of cookies on the table, and we started to eat the "safe" ones, making them think it would be okay to eat the "customized" ones, And VOILA! HAHAHA the boys fell for our prank! The expressions of their faces were priceless, and to this day I still remember very clearly how each of them squinted their eyes and yelled "UUUGH!!" in agony.

Though it is not very nice, it was really fun back then. Since I did not get to prank someone this year, did you? What did you do? Leave a shout out in the chatbox on the side and share your prank story!

Happy April Fools Day!
Little Stars