Well, our holy weekend wasn't very holy.
I was roused from sleep Friday morning to the un-sacred sound of Steve yelling for help. It turns out that Ai had gotten out of bed and rushed to the bathroom to poop. Wanting to be helpful, he decided not just to flush it down, but to get out the plunger and plunge the toilet, as well. Steve was below in the kitchen baking Paska - Easter bread - when suddenly he was getting wet. By the time he got up the stairs to the bathroom, it was completely flooded, there was poop in lots of places and a nice water stain on the kitchen ceiling. And so our day began.
We did manage to get to a local service by 10:00 - this after Ai's impromptu haircut by Dad at 9:30. He was in need of a trim, but perhaps S's irritation with the morning's event made it happen a bit sooner?! I guess the look goes along with the lamb theme of Easter - he looked naked as a sheared sheep. :( Sadly, the service found me soon in the nursery trying to keep the kids quiet so it certainly wasn't a reflective morning (though the latter is a common experience for most of us parents with young kids. Attending services seem rather pointless at times). The girls at least looked cute and complied to have a photo before lunch. :)
We had plans to have one of Abby's classmate's family over for dinner Friday night, but they had to cancel last minute. Which wasn't so bad, as we were tired and I'd discovered while trying to pick up a few items for dinner, that every thing shuts down here on Good Friday! It's one of the first times its hit me that I really do live in the Canadian Bible Belt!
Saturday we had our little friend, Molly, over from 6:30-4:00 as I babysit her every other weekend while her parents work shifts. Overall, we had a fun day - though Iz and Ai ended up having fevers and felt a bit miserable. In the morning, they played 'bunny' and lived in their cardboard kennels while eating their snacks out of bowls on the floor. Cute.
Then we dyed Easter eggs, which the kids enjoyed. I was just happy it killed more time in the day :). Iz's are the two really crushed ones. Her enthusiasm made it hard to be gentle, but thank goodness they were hard-boiled!
That night we made up clues for the kids to lead them on a little search through the house for their Easter baskets. I remember how I loved this as a kid, thrilled my parents had hid my treats in the dryer. We ended up not doing it till after church, as the service began at 9:30. We'd decided to attend despite two obviously sick kids (though not obviously sick to everyone else yet. Bad us spreading germs in the nursery - on any other day I wouldn't have done it!). The kids were good sports about waiting and had a fun time, though the photos don't capture that. Lots of pensive looks, as they really had to think where to go next for their clue. The challenge was keeping A, who figured things out a lot faster, from getting to Ai & Iz's notes or treats before them! Going to bed, A shared: "The hunt was nice, but why didn't we do a hunt for eggs, too? You know, where you just run around and find them like crazy and keep as many as you get?!" I guess from a young kid's perspective, that would have been the way to go. I hadn't thought to, as the weather forecast had been for snow flurries, which ended up coming Monday, instead. And I didn't think it'd be that great in a backyard of cement! Oh well, we tried :).
After nap, we wandered five doors up to our friends' place for a nice Easter dinner. The kids feel super comfortable there, so its easy for us to relax and enjoy Sue and Harley's company.
Thinking that A didn't have school the next day, we didn't bother coming home too early. Turns out that Easter Monday isn't a statutory holiday here! We did have dinner plans with friends that evening, but with the kids sick, we had to cancel that one, too. Oh well :).
Overall, it was a good enough weekend and in the first year in a new place, I think that's blessing enough. I have the joy of having my sister fly in this Friday with her youngest, Nora. So we're really looking forward to their company (S will be heading down to Mississippi for 9 days, though overlapping with them for a few days).
I hope you had a good-enough-Easter wherever you spent it . . . or an even better one than that! :)
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