Easter Weekend

While I love decorating the house for Christmas--let  me qualify this statement--I love decorating a couple rooms for Christmas, not the whole house. But I've never been much of an Easter decorator--not even coloring eggs. I mean who wants to have a dozen or so eggs in the fridge? Besides the color leached into the egg white and makes it look really disgusting when you finally crack them open to eat.

A few decades ago, I made a family of cute ceramic bunnies that I still bring out for a few days. (Oh, notice the Disney pics--my daughter is now taller than I am. We need a Tower of Terror pic that reflects the change .  .  . Jus' sayin').

And then one of the ladies I worked for made Bunny baskets. Mine's the green one. The kidlet has the purple one. . . .hubs doesn't have one. :-( Since Maryann has moved back to the NE, I need to figure out how to crochet one of these things, or simply replace the wire that broke in the ears!

I think part of this non-bunny Easter thing has to do with my 1) laziness, 2) confusion over the reason for the season.

But this doesn't stop me from buying way too much Easter candy for three people. Is it really my fault that most candy comes in a package of 6??? And there is actually one DVD and a fuzzy ducky in that group of nummies.

Have a wonderful Easter holiday, Peeps!

Happy Easter!

While today many religions celebrate Easter Sunday, non-Christian religions also have similar celebrations. Though it's been many, many years since I took World Religions in high school, other religions have a similar idea of rebirth.

The idea of rebirth didn't start with the formed religions, it goes back to pagan times when we thanked the gods that the death of winter has given way to the renewal of life with spring.

When I think of Easter, I tend to think about all the people that I've known and lost over the years. Eleven years ago on April 4, my dad died. Though we didn't have the closest relationship, I am glad that I was able to let him hold my baby before he died. Though he was barely alert that last day, I still get a sad/happy feeling as I tuck that memory close to my heart.

But now is not the time to dwell on death, but to relive the wonderful memories of the people we have lost. To dwell on death is counter-productive and those who have passed on wouldn't want us to do that. This is the time of rebirth and renewal.

Celebrate the renewal of life and realize that your loved ones are in a better place, and that they will always be with you in your heart and your memories.

Peace, my friends.

Lagniappe

Cajun for a 'little of dis and dat'. Of course I couldn't verify the spelling since my dictionary is too old. *note to self: buy new addition of dictionary*

This was a pretty good week for me. I won two books off two different blogs! The first one was Highland Warrior by Monica McCarthy off the Magical Musings blog. And the second book was Tempt the Devil by Anna Campbell on Romance Bandits. I think this makes my fifth or sixth book that I've won since January, plus I won a beautiful necklace on Jennifer Lyon's blog earlier this year. Free books=good.

I hope everyone had a marvelous Easter weekend. It was looonnng and busy, starting bright and early on Good Friday. Took kiddo to eye doctor appt. She went in August, but her eyesight is getting worse--cursed that she is by two sets of poor genetics. But the high point is she will get fitted with contacts this week. Did you know they let 8yo's wear contacts? Doc said he preferred kids to be at least 12, but he went ahead and measured her anyway. Then down to the Philbrook Art Museum to see three of Grandma's Americana paintings in their juried art show. The last day is Tuesday. We picked up the hubster and ate lunch at Los Cabos and off to Kohl's to buy the kiddo an Easter dress. Yeah, yeah, we waited, but at least we already picked up her First Communion dress, only three weeks away. Drove home in time to pack the kiddo's bag for an overnight stay at Grandma's while hubster and I enjoyed my Christmas present--THE NICKELBACK CONCERT!!! First concert I've been to in ages--and it was GREAT!! Saving Able kicked it off at seven, with Seether performing at 8ish, and Nickelback went on at 9. They did a wonderful two hour performance--and no one sat. Got home around midnight was too wired to sleep, I think it was about two-thirty when I closed my eyes. . .

only to open them at 6 AM on Holy Saturday. Who on earth schedules soccer games at 8:30 on Easter weekend?! Had to leave the house at 7:30 to pick the kiddo up to get her to the game field by 8:00. The other team only had 3 players, AND someone forgot to schedule us a ref. *sigh* Almost a forfeit or reschedule. . . "NOOOO!" she wails. Coach scrounged up an off-duty ref AND we let the the other team to use one of the girls little brother's as players, plus coach made each of our girls touch the ball before they were allowed to score. Yep, they had to kick it back to our own goal so the defender could touch the ball. :-) Then home for a quick change of clothes to go to a cousin's birthday party at Chuckie Cheese. THAT was two hours of my life I will never get back. Home again to make Easter dessert, finish the laundry I started on Friday, and cook dinner.

Kiddo and Hubster worked on the yard, but hubster wouldn't let me post the pic of kiddo showing her 'plumber's butt' while picking up doggie poo (and there was a LOT of poo!), said it would warp her for life if it got on the net. :-)

Here are the bunny butt cupcakes we made for Easter.

Got it out of a cookbook called Hello, Cupcake! I can't wait until Halloween and I can make the werewolves!

It's hard to tell, but the grass is piped with two colors. And Saturday night we did kick back for dinner with some beef and barley soup. I read (of course) while hubster and kiddo played Mario Galaxy on the Wii.

Easter Sunday arrived. . . a dank and gloomy morning. Kiddo woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to search for her Easter basket, and hubster made banana pancakes--Yum! Oh, and I had my first cup of joe in forty days! Yay! I gave up coffee for Lent, not because I wanted to, but because the kiddo asked me. We attended mass bright and early, 8:30. Hm, notice a pattern here? We tried to beat the only-church-twice-a-year crowd and did a decent job of it. Maybe it was the torrential rain that kept some of them away. I really don't want to complain about church, but I will and probably will get struck down in the process--watch out for lightning!. We have a priest that it is perfectly clear that English is NOT his first language, and he almost always does the early mass. Uh, something gets lost in translation when you can't understand what he's saying--It's sad especially when you know what the topic is about! Home again to watch Scooby Doo and the Samauri Sword (I read) until it was time to go to Grandma's house. Three hours later, we are home doing a quick house cleaning. . . what? Y'all don't do that on Easter? All I can say is Rocky, the guinea pig, appreciated his clean home, plus the parsley and a carrot. More Mario Galaxy, reading, and eating candy. Hubster wanted pizza for dinner. Well, it was too late for me to make dough, so we called a couple of pizza places. No one answered. Uh, duh, Easter. Yeah, we were still on our sugar high and weren't thinking clearly. So he went to the store and bought the ingredients--we ate late as we watched the Amazing Race!

Today, everything is back to 'normal'. Hubster is going to work. Kiddo is going to school. And I get to start of the mountain of laundry. I WILL make time to write today. I've been blowing it off and need to give myself a deadline.

Write on!