It seems like the holidays are always sneaking up on me and I end up feeling like we should have done more to celebrate. But actually I think the one or two things we do (consistently, every year), are probably enough to leave an impression on these kids.
This year we made Resurrection Rolls the Friday before Easter. You roll Jesus' body (a marshmallow) in oil (butter) & spices (cinnamon & sugar) and then wrap him in the tomb (crescent roll). When you cook them, Jesus' body is no longer there! They're actually a really tasty object lesson!
Sunday morning we saw the Easter bunny had visited. We try not to make a huge deal out of the bunny, so as to take away from the true meaning of Easter, but we do small baskets and let the kids think what they want about the bunny. They each got one thing to play with inside, one thing to play outside, a coloring book & crayons, plus some candy. They seemed happy.
Abigail hasn't been feeling great the past two days, with a few teeth coming in and a fever as a result, so she was a little uncertain at first. I had to pull things out of her basket to show her and she eventually warmed up to it.
This was the first Sunday in awhile that Brett didn't have to do a sunrise service (it's entirely too cold in Vermont!) so we had him with us for the Easter baskets, and the rest of the day on Easter.
Thanks to Brett's mom and sister Karen, we had beautiful matching outfits for Sunday morning. Of course we had to cover them up with sweaters since it was 40 degrees outside, but at least we were styling. Andrew even had a little matching bow tie.
Abigail wasn't really having anything to do with pictures Sunday morning, since she still wasn't feeling well and just didn't really want to be around people unless I held her, so this picture was actually taken a few days ago when we got the outfits and tried them on. Hence the reason for no shoes. The sanctuary will have to do for a backdrop since it was too cold to go outside.
After church there was an Easter egg hunt. Well, it was more like a mad dash to get as many eggs as you could! It was over so quickly I didn't get many pictures, but the kids all got a ton of candy. Abigail again wasn't really into egg hunting-- at all-- she didn't want me to put her down. I don't know if it was too cold, or she was just tired, or scared-- I could do nothing to interest her in finding eggs. So I collected a few for her.
And once we were inside she managed to muster up some of her usual energy to convince me to open every single one of her eggs so she could single-handedly eat every single piece of candy. (Even though she'd eaten nothing for breakfast, mind you.)
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I finally managed to get a few candid shots of her, but nothing with her brother & sister. She was happiest with candy in her hand.
And to recap my morning: "Hold me, Mommy!" I suppose I will cherish it while I can!
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