Birthday season + Spring Break trip + Easter + General Conference + regular life + April Fool's Day = too many traditions to keep up with this year! I hope it doesn't sound sacrilegious that I am so very grateful that next year Easter will be back towards the end of April where it doesn't compete with the rest of our activities and I can give it the energy it deserves. I like to celebrate Holy Week as a family and include the fun traditions of Easter as well, but this year it was too much.
We didn't get our Holy Week pictures up this year, but we did sit down and talk through the week of pictures with the kids.
Our Passover dinner had to be skipped this year.
We did NOT color eggs.
We bought less candy than ever and there was no neckwear or socks for the boys this year. Emmie did get bunny flats but that was just because the Easter bunny got wind that she had just celebrated her birthday. And they may have been super cheap - like $6.
We dumbed things waaaaaay down, but the morning of Easter there was a backyard hunt with a little bit of candy and coins, and in the front yard the 17 and older peeps in our family came up with an individualized hunt for each of the 4 younger kids, where at the end there was a chocolate bunny waiting for them.
Really, it all turned out just fine. I am glad that I did not add more stress to my life. Next year I plan to incorporate the spiritual aspect of things more throughout the week.
Ready for the beginning of their Easter scavenger hunts (color-coded, of course).
We even got a family picture! I will be super real and admit that in order to get sufficient sleep, pull off the scavenger hunt, and be dressed and sitting down in time for the morning session of General Conference at 10am, the shower had to be skipped. Besides a bad hair day in the picture, the kids won't remember that.
Oh yeah. I did get a package off to Callie in time. In honor of April Fool's Day, we loaded up some Easter eggs with candy and some others with other kinds of prizes, like
fingernail clippings
empty candy wrappers
an Oreo with a bite out of it
That was too much fun. It confirmed to her companion that her family has a very strange sense of humor, but it made our missionary daughter laugh hard so
mission accomplished!
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