- awake early, peruse and enjoy baskets
- shower and get ready to leave the house by 7:40 a.m.
- arrive just on time for the 8:00 bells warm-up with church to follow
- church is grand and lovely and moving and beautiful and my favorite day of the whole church year, our church knows how to have a festival Easter Sunday
- breakfast downstairs by the youth - yummy!
- a quick stop at Grandma's on the way home
- a family picture taken by Grandma, as Simon has been asking since Palm Sunday for a family picture
- the outdoor egg hunt - Norah opened her pink and white eggs as she went along, Simon opened his blue eggs after he found them all. She is impulsive and he is orderly in how things are done.
- make, bake, and eat resurrection rolls with ham and cheese for lunch
- quick nap, awake lil' miss early to arrive to the family destination on time
- arrive at 3:15 to eric's brother's house as dinner was strongly declared to be between 3:00 and 4:00
- didn't sit down for dinner until close to 6:00, not the best situation
- Norah declares nearing leaving "I gonna miss my cousins"
- desserts and more play time and home by 9:00 p.m., later than hoped for
- talked to my mom
- finished the great hawk's game with a win
- off to bed
Monday, April 25, 2011
Easter
Easter was lovely. I did a super fast most of the house clean up the night before. I have this crazy need that the house must be in perfect order (tables, counters, flat surfaces, dishwasher and floors clear of clutter) and items in their place. Kitchen, living-dining room, family room, and bathroom were straightened, dusted, vacuumed, steam-mopped, and cleaned. The kids' room was clean minus dusting and vacuuming. My/our bedroom, is always last on the list and never gets done. Just shut the door! Then the baskets and eggs had to be filled and hidden. This year, the kids decided the E.B. was coming. I have never uttered the word "Easter Bunny" in this house. Not a fan, sort of creepy. But somehow he was a-comin' on over. So we decided the baskets were from us and left on the table at their spots. Eggs were hidden outside, by the E.B. And the kiddos were beyond excited and thrilled. I still have yet to really utter E.B.'s name, still not a fan. So the break-down of the day went like this:
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Whew! Busy day! Where's the family picture?!
You feel about the EB the way I feel about Santa. T feels this way about the Tooth Fairy.
I love when you mentioned how Simon and Norah are different--so interesting.
When I was little, I could not wait to go to Shopko with Mom to pick out my chocolate bunny. Ears up or ears down? Yellow bow or pink bow? It really was an agonizing decision. My sisters and I all wore our new dress shoes upstairs before Easter in excited anticipation of Easter morning. More excitement for shoes than EB. Norah may follow suit. She loves shoes.
Did any of your resurrection rolls stay closed? I think 6 of my 8 popped open and all that gooey goodness was on the pan. :-(
-Jo
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