Easter

Our spring break ended after our California trip with the Easter weekend.  The Maundy Thursday service always helps to refocus me during spring break.  On Saturday, the girls were dying eggs for the Easter breakfast.  A process a have less need to monitor than I used to. 

They woke up to Easter baskets – it feels like more of a challenge to fill it with things that will not just be trinkets they throw away/never use or just a pile of candy no one really needs or to just spend a lot of money for no real reason.  I think I found a decent balance this year…

And on Easter Sunday, we enjoyed church with our shared breakfast at church before the service.  The cross was beautifully ordained this year.

Afterwards, we headed to mom and dad’s to have Easter lunch together and hang out.  Meg, Madison, Ellie, and Landen played a fun game of phone hide and seek – two of them would hid in very creative places around the house and then send hints via emojis to the other groups’ phone.  The older boys took off to show Paxon’s friend from Peru (I think) the sights and the flooding; Sam ended up ruining his jeep driving through deep water… so that didn’t end as well as it could have.  It was especially nice this year because I didn’t have to return to school on Monday.  We were given Easter Monday as a professional development summer swap day – so the time we put in during the summer meant we didn’t have to be in person this day.  It made for a much more relaxed Sunday.