Warning: Many photos ahead!
We had a great Easter weekend. I did finally (just barely) get a chance to dye eggs with the kids. They pretty much did it on their own after I got everything set up for them. I responded to all the “Look at this one, Mama!” calls while I cooked.
I even left them to clean up while I rushed off to ladies’ Bible study where we stuffed eggs for our church egg hunt the next morning. As we filled plastic eggs with candy, we exchanged Easter bunny, Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy stories.
I learned that my kids are completely deprived because I have totally eliminated the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy from their lives. I did the Tooth Fair for about 3 of Clementine’s tiny, hard won teeth before I realized it was entirely too much work and there were going to be way too many teeth in my future. (If I’d had the foresight to realize then that it might be more prudent to be saving that money for the orthodontist, I might not have even wasted those first three dollars.)
And then I was like, “Look, there’s no more Tooth Fairy.”
When Emeline lost her first tooth she got the token rolled up dollar tied with a ribbon under her pillow, but now the first tooth is the golden tooth. After that they’re meaningless.
They do get Easter treats in their baskets, but there’s no carrot nibbling or bunny nest mysteries left behind like the others told me about. I guess I’m just a lazy mother.
It stormed that night, but the next day was sunny and nice. Tess caught on right away about finding eggs and putting them in her basket. The hardest part for her was walking on uneven ground while holding her basket and bending over to pick up an egg.
I spent the rest of Saturday getting ready for Sunday. Cleaning, ironing clothes and cooking.
Sunday morning we went to church and there was beautiful singing and a wonderful message.
We had the whole family here for lunch. My sister even showed up.
I forced my kids to take a family picture before they changed and went looking for eggs. See how happy they were to oblige me?
Finally, the adults hid the plastic eggs in my mother’s shrubbery. (My kids won’t hide their boiled eggs, those are too special. We will live with those for about a week until the fear of one breaking is too much for me and I force them to throw them in the woods)
Just before they turned the kids loose to find eggs, they announced that there was a dollar bill in one of the eggs.
That got them moving fast!
It was a HOT day. I don’t think we’ve ever had an Easter this warm. If we have I can’t remember it.
After the egg hunt we went to our friend’s house to see what the Easter bunny left for them.
Colored chicks, ducks and a goat!
You think there’s a PAAS dye kit for this?
They were adorable.
Tess tried so hard to catch them.
They always managed to be just out of reach.
The little goat was adorable too.
But the minute they put it down, it R-U-N-N-O-F-T!
They all ran off after it, into the field, to the thicket where it hid. Even Lindsey who is on crutches because a horse fell on her and broke her hip a few weeks ago. That’s her daughter holding the goat.
Then they all came back on the tractor like a bunch of hillbillies. And we laughed at them and I took their picture and put it on my blog so you can laugh at them too. And later, Mr. Doug will make me pay for this. (But really he’s the one who looks least like a hillbilly because he is actually driving the tractor).
My kids begged for their own set of little colored chickens and as much as I’d like to have chickens myself, I know my dogs would eat them right up. I have no idea how people have dogs and chickens.
We spent the rest of the day relaxing and hanging out outside, making more plans for our flower beds.
We had a wonderful weekend. I hope you did too.
