Easter at Home

For Easter this year we had church at home and read The Living Christ aloud. Then we watched a YouTube Live broadcast of an Easter program from our church congregation. Our family had been asked to provide a musical number, but I couldn't get enough willing participants to make it work. It pained me to say no, but the Spirit whispered that another family needed the opportunity more than we did. I suggested their name to the woman in charge of the music. She said they'd been asked to sing in church in the past and had said no, but she would try again. This time they said yes and did a beautiful job.

In between our family meeting and our YouTube meeting I ushered the kids into the library and snapped as many pictures as I could in a few minutes. I love these Christmas and Easter pictures of the kids, I feel like it's a good time to see how everyone is growing. I love the people in the pictures too.

After church we had quiet time and I continued with my food prep. Bryan and I split up the culinary responsibilities. We had a delicious meal of ham (Bryan), roasted potatoes (Bryan), sauteed asparagus (Bryan), cottage cheese/strawberry/jello salad (me), deviled eggs (both), rolls (me), carrot cake (me), and apple crisp (me). The two desserts aren't pictured, but the cake made an appearance in Monday's post.

Before dinner we had a small Easter egg hunt inside our house. Peter had the honor of hiding the plastic eggs, then Bryan hid a bunch of little chocolate bunnies and eggs so Peter would have something to find as well. The kids all had a great time looking, especially Topher. He figured out right away what he was supposed to do. The kids all pooled their loot and we split it amongst them, which meant no one fought over not getting enough eggs. We also cobbled together little goody bags from what we had on hand and a few items Bryan was able to find at Costco the day before. We made the mistake of presenting these before dinner, but then asking the kids to wait until after dinner to eat them. That is torture to a boy who is not quite two. Topher ended up eating a little dinner and a few Oreos while everyone else finished their meal.

The kids were so excited about the candy that no one wanted carrot cake or apple crisp. They were both pretty healthy because of how I sweetened them, so I let the kids eat them for breakfast the next morning. They all thought that was a genius idea.

We were all filled on Easter, both physically and spiritually.