Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was really good. We did some work in the yard on Saturday and Monday, but mostly just enjoyed the holiday. Kaelyn went on her first Easter egg hung on Thursday afternoon. Roger took her to our neighbor’s daycare. She quickly understood the concept…at least, to pick up egg-like objects and put them in her bag. She got one or two eggs on her own, several egg-sized and shaped rocks, and a small colorful bouncy ball. She did not understand why we made her put the rocks and ball back, but was at least easily distracted by the colorful eggs the other kids shared with her.


Sunday morning, we did another egg hunt in our backyard. We didn’t really hide the eggs, but instead scattered them around. I held the basket for her while she ran around picking up all the eggs and dropping them in. She had a great time and we got some excellent pictures out of it. That morning, when she woke up, I put her in her Easter dress and then let her walk into the dining room to discover her basket. It was priceless. She went straight for what is now her favorite toy (an egg shaped globe that lights up with spinning led-lights) and didn’t pay attention to anything else.

That afternoon, we went to Vickie’s house to have Easter dinner. Kaelyn got another bag of goodies from Vickie’s mother and had fun running around with the other kids. We enjoyed our meal and I managed to stay away from all the carbs and sugar (lost another 10 lbs so far). Roger did pretty good too. He passed up the dinner rolls in favor of eating dessert…a lemon cake. We brought the chocolate covered Easter eggs (rice krispies and peanut butter) home and are hoping they keep for another week when we’re going to allow ourselves to indulge a little bit.

I was supposed to be off Monday, but did have to go in for a meeting in the morning. Then, we went to look at some stone for our front patio, and took two trips to Home Depot to get the supplies we need to finish out our vegetable garden. Roger is off today so he and Kaelyn are at home working on it now.

That’s about all I have to report. Things are just so busy right now. It’s hard to find the time to write anything down (at least anything of any meaning), even though there is so much swimming in my head.