Happy Easter

He is Risen, Happy Easter!~

It's been a long but glorious week in our home, as Holy Week generally is. It starts with Palm Sunday and Confirmation, followed by parties at various locations, then continues on through the week with daddy preparing for three major services in four days, and Mommy being as much a single parent as I ever want to be. The light at the end of the tunnel is that after Easter, things slow down for a while, or, they're supposed to...

The choir sang on Maundy Thursday, but Lars didn't make it much past the first 10 minutes of service before we all left. He'd been up for 2+ hours the night before and had about a 30 minute nap that day, so I wasn't holding out much hope going into it. Both kids were in bed by 7:30 and asleep by 7:35 that evening. I was too tired to do anything, but didn't want to go to bed, so I sat on the couch with my feet up and that's as exciting as my evening got.

Good Friday service was much better, and they both made it to the end of service without much problem. Eden was distraught that all the furnishings had been taken from the church (we'd missed the stripping of the altar the night before) and Lars was fixated on the big rough hewn cross that was carried in at the end of the service. Eden asked more questions during that service. I started taking notes so she could ask her daddy at bedtime. She had me stumped on a couple of them.

Saturday, we dyed Easter Eggs in the morning with friends, watched the Red Wings in the afternoon, took naps and generally bummed around.

Easter morning finally arrived and I asked Eden, "what do we celebrate today?". Her reply? "Hunting for Easter Eggs!"

They sat through church very well, but from the back pew it's impossible to see anything and they get so squirmy. Choir sang for the last time this season, so we can move back up front now and see what's going on. Though I will miss my one hour a week of adult interaction with no kids for choir practice.

After church, we came home for a bit. The Red Wings played, but not very well. Douthit's came over to get & take some family photos and Kyra helped hide Easter eggs for our kids while Lexi distracted them in the back yard. When daddy came home, the hunt was on, with Lars leaving his toy tractor only once to grab an egg that was just out of his reach when he couldn't maneuver his wheels over the bumpy patch. It was the funniest thing I'd seen all week. Future farmer??

Later in the day, daddy went to the nursing home & the rest of us are eating dinner at an Elder's house with his family. The hostess asks Eden, "Would you like some yummy ham?" Eden, "No, I only like Laura's ham." Oh boy, did I want the carpet to open up.

We stayed there all day, dipping fruit in the chocolate fountain and wandering outside to see all the 'real tractors' up close, along with the cows, the semi-trucks, the big tires, the other tractor, the OTHER tractor, the kitties, the dump trucks and so on and so forth.

We stopped at Douthit's on our way home to share photos and I never left the chair that I first sat in when I got there until it was time to leave.

The week is over and another begun, spring is here, school is nearly out for the year, the birds chirp us awake each morning, and I'm slowly getting things checked off my list in the count down to baby number three.

Until next time....