Today was catch- up- on- sleep day. We both were exhausted. We went to church of course. We have to be seriously ill to miss that. But we decided to miss the after-Mass lunch date we usually do, at Clifton's County Divide Cafe, which is the best meal for the money to be had around in several counties, or Concordia's Easy G's Sports Bar & Grill, where you can watch your favorite football, basketball, baseball, hockey, or other sports teams duke it out every day of the week, while chowing down on some great sandwiches, hot or cold, along with some awesome house fries or tater tots, or a huge salad, and coffee, tea, pop, or your favorite alcoholic beverage. Wow! Is that a run-on sentence, or am I just hungry?

Anyway, as I said, we by-passed all of that tasty goodness for a long nap at home in our recliners, which would have been great except for the dog, Maizie, who was so excited to have us back home that she kept jumping all over me and licking whatever skin she could find.

I've been sleeping a lot lately, almost too much, I think. Sometimes I think I have narcolepsy.  Thursday night I struggled to stay awake at our Catholic class session, and it wasn't because it was boring, because it most certainly was not boring. Fr. Andrew makes all of his homilies and lessons very interesting and we get some lively conversations going sometimes. I've been a Catholic since 1969 and I've learned more about the Church in the past three months than I did in all the years before that.

Today's homily was about the Baptism of Jesus Christ, and Fr.  said Jesus's baptism wasn't the same baptism that we all get. Because with our baptism we are freed from Original Sin and Jesus didn't need redemption, because he was perfect already. 

In the bulletin each week, there is a mini lesson, Catholic 101. This week it was on the importance of attending Church every weekend and why missing it was a serious sin. We already knew that, but sometimes a reminder just hits home a little bit. How did Fr. Andrew know that we both had been tempted to stay home this Sunday?

Dennis wasn't feeling well and hasn't for several days. It's nothing like the flus or other viral bugs going around lately, just a common physical ailment that strikes him several times a month. And I was fighting my chronic sinus congestion. I didn't really have a headache, but felt very congested and sluggish, and I have brain fog on a regular basis.

Such is life in the elderly. Now at almost six p.m., I finally coming alive and getting a little laundry done and writing my blog.

I hope everyone reading this hasn't fallen asleep in boredom. I promise to share some new writing I'm doing in the next few days, so please keep reading.

Have a Blessed Sunday!