L is for Lamb

Dispatch from Switzerland.  One week til Easter. Both here and across the border in France, every street intercsection and most every shop window is decorated with painted wood, paper mâché or plastic bunnies, chicks, eggs and lambs. Boulangerie windows are filled with chocolate rabbits wrapped in cellophane and pastel colors dominate the boutiques. But as one window features an image of a fleecy lamb, the charcuterie next door is promoting their deal on leg of lamb. With the hoof still attached.

Jesus was the lamb of god, the sacrifical lamb; I know this because one of the metal bands my sons used to like is called Lamb of God.  They were the opener for Metallica the time I escorted three middle school metal heads to the mosh pit, to set up our post-show rendezvous spot. I wasn't taken to Sunday school as a kid, so I've had to pick things up later, like while folding my sons' laundry pile of black metal band shirts. 

How do we leap from frolicking fuzzy cuteness to Easter dinner? Eggs represent rebirth, the bunny fertility and the leg of lamb - the sacrifice on special at the charcuterie -the edible essence of spring? 

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A to Z challenge begins tomorrow

Tomorrow begins the Blogging from A to Z challenge, which I am trying to do individually AND as a contributer to my Write On, Mamas! group challenge. With the opening of baseball season (Go Giants!) Spring is in the air and a huge distraction, so wish us all well.

The good news: Only one more middle school dance on the calendar and it coincides with the opening of the new Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, and is on my DD's 13th birthday, so obviously she's NOT going to the dance.

More good news: DS applied to one college and by some miracle was accepted and by the second miracle agreed to go. So, despite the discovery of our first born's newest tattoo, a turkey vulture, whose wingspan covers his entire chest, things are looking up considerably.  As my friend DJ commented, 'not as emo as a crow'.  Yes, thank god my boys aren't emo. That would be unbearable.

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