Easter, 2012

I had a lovely Easter.

The day started with a pancake breakfast with Loni, Mina and the youngest. 

Mina had to go to the airport after breakfast.  Loni and I went to see Mirror, Mirror, and the youngest stayed home to study for an exam.  

A little shopping on the way home from the movie, and then it was home for lunch and some relaxing time watching television.  Loni knitted on a scarf, and I did some hand quilting.  

Spaghetti for dinner with fresh sourdough bread the youngest made in the bread machine followed by two episodes of GCB made for a very nice family night.  

A Different Kind of Easter

This was a different kind of Easter weekend for our family.

There was no coloring of eggs, or an Easter egg hunt for the very first time since 1991.  Although it made my heart sad, I was also glad.  It was getting pretty hard to hide eggs from boys that are taller than me and keep them from being smashed from size 12 and 14 shoes.  

I did not even see the youngest.  He stayed on campus to get community service time (it was canceled) and study.  

The oldest did spend Friday night and was here for a good part of Saturday.  Saturday night he came back with his girlfriend and some others came over.

The girls and I made craft day into a stay over so that they could go to Sunrise Service with me.  QueenJ could not be here with us, so it wasn't quite the same but it was still a beautiful day.

Jason delivered a wonderful message to us all this morning and the youth did a fabulous job.   

After the service we went to breakfast and then each of us went on our separate ways to finish up Easter day.

I took a nice long nap, did some laundry, and worked on the baby quilt.  I also had a nice chat with my brother and a friend.  

I thought this would be tough to get through this day without the usual traditions, but it actually turned out to be an okay different kind of Easter.

Happy Easter

This is the first year since 1991 that we have not dyed Easter eggs and had an Easter egg hunt. It was quite a shock to me.

Raymond was always in charge of the coloring of the Easter eggs. I would buy all the coloring kits, boil the eggs, and lay out the paper, but he was the one that would really get into the artistic side of the colored Easter eggs. He and the boys even colored Easter eggs in the living room while Raymond was in a hospital bed in hospice care. Raymond could barely see straight from all the morphine but he squinted his eyes and carefully painted scenes on the eggs. It made it very hard to color eggs the next year.

Last year we colored eggs, but I could tell the spirit wasn't there. We did the egg hunt too, but even I will admit it was a little ridiculous to be hiding eggs for boys with size 12 (oldest) and size 13 (youngest) shoes.

This year they both vetoed the idea of coloring eggs when I brought it up. Instead of an Easter egg hunt we just went by the drugstore and they picked out the kind of chocolate bunny they wanted.

It was fine, yet it made me so sad.

So no colored eggs, or egg hunt, or deviled eggs to make this year, but that is not Easter. We all got up and went to the early service at church, the boys loved the sermon today, and enjoyed the music. I enjoyed being there with them and hearing them sing, one on each side of me. I had a Raymond flash in church and it made me smile. We were together as a family and that is always makes a perfect day for me.

Happy Easter.