Happy Easter!

He is Risen Indeed!

The most wonderful thing about Easter is that it last's all year long.

There is much joy in the risen Lord! How sad that we celebrate it fully just one time a year!

Our day was beautiful. Since I had been sick the entire week before, it wasn't quite as organized or elaborate as we do each year, but we got in all the activities that we like to do together as a family.

There was cookie decorating...

The Boy was a slap-and-dash kind of decorator. The Girl more the Artiste.
(She would also like me to note that she is using her robe as a smock, so as to not get her nice shirt dirty.)

and egg finding...

 and sparkly new clothes.

There was not one, but TWO meals on outside on the deck.

And there was candy....

This year our little family had done something together that I hadn't told you about:

As a family we gave up candy for lent.


I have to tell you I couldn't have been more proud of my children.

They decided on their own that they would join The Mister and I on our 40-day fast, and I am fairly certain that I couldn't  have done it without them. This topic deserves an entire post so I will save it for later in the week.

Needless to say, there was A LOT of candy on Easter morning...way more than we have done in the past.

There was also the photo The Mister takes every year...the one of me taking pictures.

However, this year, the picture makes me laugh extra hard! It's like ode to my favorite things: I've got my fave t-shirt, and extra large reindeer pajama pants; a bottle of water tucked under my arm and an 18 oz. coffee mug in my hand....and the video camera.

I did actually get to wear my Easter dress.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Thursday Thyroids and Other Fine Things

The good news is that I feel a little better today.

The bad news is that I sound worse.

This morning I sat in the pediatric dentists office trying to act inconspicuous. I tried really hard to act casual while hacking up a lung.

I felt pretty confident that I was doing a good job until a lady with her adorable 6 year old boy walked in the room. Which is actually a funny story....

The nurse asked this women if it was all right to take her son's bite-wing x-rays. The mom answered in a tone that was highly patronizing and very loud, "Please be sure to cover his..." and then she waved her hand in a circle around the lower portion her own body.

The nurse respectfully replied, "Oh yes, don't worry, we use a lead apron."

The mom condescendingly says, "well, be sure to cover his thyroids."

I began to wonder if she was confusing one body part for the others.

Anyway, this same mom was giving me the evil eye when I had a small coughing fit. Luckily, my kids appointment was quick (no cavities, HOORAY!) and we were able to make a swift exit.

You know, I should probably give this women the benefit of the doubt. Maybe her son has health issues, maybe she's just really concerned about radiation, but speaking kindly to others isn't all that hard.

Since I have had some time on my hands this week I decided to make a couple of Easter Baskets.

I hooked up these super-easy easy baskets using this pattern.

The blue one is done with only two strands of yarn (instead of three as the pattern suggests.)

The pink one was actually an entire skein of yarn that I hooked into one long single-chain. I had seen this technique done one other projects and wanted to try it out (instead of using separate strands). I wouldn't do it again for this kind of project - maybe it was just the wrong kind of yarn for that technique, but it made things difficult.

So that's it, the good the bad and the crafty.

I cannot wait to show you the pictures I took outside this morning of my garden flowers. Oh! they are nice...but until then the picture above is actually from my neighbors yard (every year she catches me taking photos in her yard, and she doesn't even mind!)....spring is in full bloom!

Until tomorrow...