Well, this past week wasn't any different. Monday and Tuesday were somewhat typical school days . . . we finished up our standardized testing and did a little work. Wednesday we had a relaxing school day and just touched on a few subjects. By Thursday, we were focused on co-op classes, delivering papers, and Jay had a church commitment in the evening. Then we gave the kids Friday off since the neighbor kids were on spring break. While the kids hung out with their friends, Jay and I bagged the weekend shoppers, watched movies, and he prepared for his Good Friday service.
Before I knew it, it was Saturday and Cassie and I were out delivering the weekend shoppers. We totally forgot about decorating Easter eggs. So I phoned Jay and asked him to do a couple of things. First we had discussed the fact that he was going to miss the kids' Easter morning finds as he had a sunrise service at 7:00 a.m. and he had to leave the house by 5:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. So, we decided maybe he could call the Easter Bunny and explain our situation and see if it was possible for him to visit our house early. The EB was so eager to oblige, we just had to make arrangements to be out of the house for a while.
So, before we could leave we had to make sure we had decorated eggs for the EB to hide. While Cassie and I finished delivering, Jay steamed the eggs, went to the store to buy egg coloring kits - everything seasonal we own is in storage -, and then Mackenzie decorated the eggs. Cassie and I were home briefly and got to decorate a couple of eggs ourselves.
After Cassie and I got home and had some down time, the girls and I decided to go buy some craft supplies, which I have to admit turned out to be more of a hassle and we didn't get a thing. When Jay and Zack were done taking care of a few things, we met them for dinner.
To our surprise when we got home that fabulous EB had visited our house. He left baskets full of goodies for the kids. Along with the traditional solid chocolate bunnies and plastic eggs filled with candies, they got movies, educational things, Webkinz trading cards, pink Wii wheels (the girls), and some other really cool things.
Mackenzie was really excited about her frog habitat. Of course the tadpole she got from COSI can't go into it because he's a water frog. So we ordered her two tadpoles for her new habitat. Cassie also got a butterfly pavilion, so we ordered her some larvae to watch them go through the whole metamorphosis. The kids love watching things change and grow. YEAH . . . so do I.
After they went through their baskets, Zack found a stray egg. Yeah the EB hid the decorated eggs, too. So Kenzie scoured the house to find them all. She had a really hard time finding the very last one, but thankfully, Zack came to the rescue and found it hidden in the most unlikely spot, one of Cassie's sweatshirts.
Sunday morning was very relaxed for four of us. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, Jay had to get up extremely early to preach at the Easter Sunrise Service in Adamsville. By the time we got to church, he had preached one service and baptized a 7 month old baby, had breakfast with the congregation, taught Sunday school, and was preparing for his second of three services of the day.
Once we were all home from church, the kids spent a lot of time outside while Jay and I played catch up with household chores . . . mostly the laundry. I guess you do what you have to do. Now our week starts over.
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