At Home: Easter Fun

It finally feels as though spring has arrived here in Michigan. That doesn't mean it won't be cold, but not as cold or gloomy as it has been. Always a plus! I think celebrating a late Easter adds to the spring feeling. More sunshine. More flowers. More merriment.

Definitely more merriment.

I've written about our Good Friday tradition here before. For at least twenty years, and probably longer, we gather with our friends Mark and Jan to have dinner and then color eggs. After, we watch Monty Python's "Life of Brian." 

It's always a jolly event with lots of puns about our eggcellent work, our eggstaordinary results and our eggstremely fun time.

On this Good Friday, the 250th anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord that kicked off the Revolutionary War, we celebrated American silversmith Paul Revere. It was Revere who rang the bells and rode off to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that "the British are coming!" This year, at 6 p.m., many churches were ringing their bells in commemoration -- so we brought our own bells and rang them loudly from the deck for one minute. Our own warning about freedom!

Then it was on to a delicious dinner and the egg coloring! We ended up with quite the array. Rick and I always color our eggs raw so I get a big smile for days after when I go to make scrambled eggs!

Our Easter celebration with the kids was on Saturday. Rick and Kevin spent a good deal of that time working on Rick's bathroom remodel and getting up the beadboard walls. 

Sometimes they had an assistant.

Molly, the kids and I played a few games.

Cam got his mom to take a selfie!

And finally, we had to be outside, so it was a walk to the Ditch. The boys enjoyed climbing on the giant rocks.

(Cam never met a rock he didn't want to pose on!)

 

 

And we had to do Pooh Sticks on the bridge!

We avoided Father Goose and steered clear of the nest where I had my encounter a few days before. But we saw lots of ducks and also spotted a muskrat, digging to pull out something from the ground that he tucked in his mouth and swam back, probably to build his nest. Cam called him Elon.

Once the bathroom team could take a break, we headed back to my house for dinner. It was pretty traditional -- ham, deviled eggs, salad, haricot vert, with brownies for dessert. Some of the things we usually do -- scalloped potatoes, asparagus -- we scrapped this year. 

And then, the egg hunt!

This year I hid the eggs better! I think they found them all. 

Then came the opening of the eggs! One year we had a bit of an accident (I'd stuffed the eggs with chocolate and put them out in the morning -- then it got warm and you can guess what happened to the chocolate.) So this time it was Tootsie Rolls, Jolly Ranchers and coins. 

Cam pulled in a little over $11, and Carson a little over $12. That's a lot of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters! I don't know that they'll ever be satisfied with just candy again!

A happy afternoon, surrounded by people we loved!

And on Sunday? We rested!

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