Hodgepodge in a hospital room during Holy Week

Hey friends! I'm joining up with Joyce and friends for this week's Hodgepodge. I'm typing this at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday in my daughter's dark hospital room. More to come . . .

1.What do you love about your life right now? I love my family and I love my job and I love being back in our home. I love the ability to travel.

2. March 26th is National Spinach Day...are you a fan? If so, how do you like yours prepared/served? Mark LOVES spinach cooked or raw. I'm not that fond of cooked spinach, but will eat it. I do enjoy a great spinach salad.

3. In this current season would you say you need to spend more time looking inward or that you need to get out of your head? Tell us why. The last few weeks have been really tough. I'm not even sure how to answer that question today.

4. Are you following the 'March Madness' madness? (That's US college basketball in case you're out of the loop) What's something that feels like actual madness to you right now? We have been following some. We are Auburn fans and enjoyed watching their games . . .until. What seems like actual madness? The inability to get my daughter's blood pressure under control.

5. How will you celebrate the Easter/Passover holiday this year? Do you remember that I am on a church staff? I'm trading out with Mark today at the hospital and I'll head back home. We have noon day services Monday through Wednesday of this week with a guest pastor and lunch. Thursday night is Maundy Thursday with a service at 6:00 p.m. Friday night is Good Friday with a service at 6:00 p.m. The Good Friday service is always so amazing. It ends in darkness and in silence. I always imagine how the disciples and Mary must have felt. At some point on Friday, I will pick up the Honeybaked Ham and make Copper Pennies and I desperately need an Easter pedicure. Mark and I will head to Easter worship on Saturday night at 6:00 p.m. We added this service several years ago for folks who have to work on Sunday (we have lots of medical folks in our church) and for families of other pastors who never get to worship with their families. Easter Sunday morning will find me back at the church at 7:00 a.m. where I will be working the Welcome Center desk and taking turns with a co-worker driving the golf cart around the neighborhood behind the church. There is a Baptist church on the other side of our parking lot and they have their own parking deck BUT many of them want to park in our lot. We have signs posted and over the years, their pastor has asked them not to park in our lot . . .but they still do. We are already short on parking spots and are land locked. A lot of our folks end up parking on the neighborhood streets sometimes up to three blocks away . . .hence, the golf cart. We will be riding around offering folks a ride to the church. I'll be there from 7:00 to noon and THEN I will head to my  mother-in-law's house to enjoy Easter lunch with family. Either that afternoon or the next morning, I will head back down to take another turn with our daughter who will hopefully be out of the hospital by then. Everyone is going to be ok . . . but I'm just waiting to tell y'all everything all at once.

6. Insert your own random thought here.