Isn't it wonderful? After six months of cold, dark and snowy weather we finally have the first BEAUTIFUL day on Easter Sunday! Praise God who creates all things new! That said I feel like I deserve a T-shirt that says, "I survived the winter of 2013-2014". I'm still having a hard time leaving the house without a coat on. I feel like it's a trick. Perhaps this is some sort of post-traumatic winter syndrome.
Things went smoothly Sunday morning. We were up and ready with plenty of time for the Easter Bunny to set out baskets while everyone was in the van waiting Mommy to finish getting ready for Mass. Ahem. Cough. Cough.
Here's how things looked before Mass. Bikes staged. Baskets filled with goodies. I have to say we did a good job of balancing treats this year. The baskets were 80% from the Dollar Tree, plus a book and rosary for each of them and a few pieces of candy.
This was Happy's Basket. I made last minutes decisions and accidentally gave him Rooster's basket. Whoops. No one but me seemed to notice though. There's an Easter book, glow stick, chocolate cross, silly string,peeps, ring pop, and notebook are all from the Dollar Tree, then there's a rosary and Twistable crayons. Plus a peanut butter Egg just for good measure.
This is King's basket. Sorry for the blurry picture, again, we were in a hurry. Same deal here although, no bike. (Sorry Buddy) and he received bathtub crayons, and a LITTLE chocolate cross (thank you Dollar Tree) and then a beautiful Catholic Board Book. I had purchases a number of new prayer cards to make him a new prayer card ring but forgot to make it. Whoops. No one will ever know. I'll make it later this week.
Demands basket. Easy to find, it's the only pink one. She received some pretty notebooks and pretty pens from Dollar Tree. Gosh I love that place. She's always after my good crafting pens. She received Twistable Colored Pencils which are quite fun.
Rooster. He received a "Knight's City" pop-up book which I'm sure I'll regret soon.
Family Basket. This year I tried Shower of Roses idea and made a Family Basket as a gift to the ....family. I just said family a lot. Everything in the basket represents symbol of Easter.
Cross: Cross shaped puzzle
Lily: Lily
Eggs: A "My Spy Birdhouse"
Bell: A dinner bell Mr. Sloth will install outside our back door.
Peacock: A peacock coloring book, fits nicely with the new crayons and pencils everyone received.
Butterfly: Godiva 'Butterfly Chocolates"
Bread: Two items here because I couldn't make up my mind. Cookies from a Monestery that look oh, so tasty and "Kateri Bread". We'll save the Kateri Bread for the feast of St. Kateri which we celebrate most years.
Lamb: A lamb mold for making either chocolate or butter lambs.
Finally, the last gift was suppose to go in King's basket but there wasn't any room. The basket of roses are crocheted roses for praying the rosary. He'll put a Red Rose in the basket for every Hail Mary, and the White one for the Our Fathers. I found the cute little basket at Michael's last week and thought it was a perfect fit for storing the roses. Cute, huh?
Not only did we make it to Mass on Time but we were able to get second row seats! Sweet! Mr. Sloth had to dash out during the homily when this guy decided to start giving his own homily. And he projects like a Shakespearean Actor. Mr. Sloth regrets ME not taking him because Father used so much incense that I thought I was going to get sick, and that was the just the first of four times during the whole Mass. Oh, that was rough. I was sick and nauseas the rest of the morning.
Getting kids to take pictures after they've sat (mostly) still for an hour and know there are treats waiting for them at home its quite a tricky business.
Or getting them to look in the same direction at all.
I like this picture because they are in close proximity but not fighting. Very rare.
We had one shot at a family picture.
Then it was home to discover some fun. No pictures were taking as the kids were all a blur and I was still nauseas from all the incense. Fun and happiness were experienced though. Eventually brunch was eaten....and ring pops.
King's already worn out.
So handsome.
Look at the center piece I made. Isn't it loverly? Better than I planned. I bought the basket at Target. Every since I experienced a Austrian Easter I love the colors of green and yellow for Easter. The Austrians use so much of nature in their decorations. I love it. So I placed a short square vase in the bottom of the basket and filled it with yellow roses and a bouquet of spring flowers. Mr. Sloth loved it too. He was wondering where it was on Holy Saturday but I had hid it in anticipation of Easter.
The rest of the day was quite nice.The kids had fun with the egg hunt. My idea of giving the kids each one color of eggs to find is pure genius. And the gold eggs with a "ransome that was paid" gold coin in them were a hit too. We ended up having starting a fire and enjoying our patio after the kids were in bed. Absolute perfect night for it. In the sixties, still wind, and no bugs. Lovely. Today came the real miracle. I forgot to arrange childcare while I took King to his first well-child check so Mr. Sloth had to stay home for the morning. In the end he decided to take the whole day off. It's an Easter Miracle!! He's not sick or traveling but he stayed home, to enjoy himself. Yay!!
Happy Easter Everyone!
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