it's that time of year again...

Ash Wednesday is next week. The start of Lent...I can't believe it's already been a year already! This year has flown by! This season of Lent will be a little different for me. I will still abstain from meat but I won't be fasting due to my pregnancy. I'm not sure what I'm going to give up yet but I'm leaning towards Facebook. I spend entirely too much time on FB, LOL. So it's time to start reflecting and I really need to go to confession. Guess what? It's still difficult to make myself go! I thought after going last year, that I would go to confession once a month but sadly it hasn't happened. I think I will try and go this weekend and just get it over with.

Well, I did it...

I met my friend Jennifer at the church on Friday afternoon so I could go to confession. Jennifer watched Joshua in the playground for me. I did not get the Act of Contrition memorized, but I wrote it down on a little piece of paper and brought it with me. Of course I thought that Monsignor wouldn't see me reading it in the confessional, but with my luck we did not use the confessional because they were setting up tables in the church for the fish fry. So out to Mary's garden we went. It wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it was going to be but it was exhausting! I felt so drained afterwards that I just wanted to go home and take a nap. I hope to make it a regular habit now.