As usual we celebrated Holy Week with bright colors, tasty treats, and time spent with friends. At home, we decorated the house with flowers, dyed Easter eggs (we tried some new methods this year!), made and decorated sugar cookies, and colored and shaped marzipan (I rediscovered a box of it I forgot at Christmas--that stuff lasts a long time!), and made and shaped bread. Of course, we had the usual pile of chocolate bunnies and assorted candies Easter morning.
We were all asked to participate in our church's Good Friday service this year: Lion and Bug blew out candles, Monkey did one of the scripture readings (all the other readers were grown-ups; she was very proud and did an excellent job), and Daddy and I helped serve communion.
The girls also got to participate in two egg hunts this year--one with neighborhood friends and one at church Easter morning. On both occasions we laughed about the lack of good hiding places (palm trees don't offer many nooks and crannies), and the girls referred to them as Easter egg grabs instead of Easter egg hunts!
Easter day meant a potluck breakfast at church, the egg hunt, and a worship service, and in the evening we joined friends for an unconventional Easter dinner of chili and cornbread. Good times.
He is risen!
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| So many pretty flowers! |
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| Mmmm....sugar cookies. I think I have cutters for every holiday |
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| This year we dyed some eggs using food coloring sprinkled into rice and the rest with food coloring swirled in shaving cream. |
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| They turned out beautifully! |
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| Hard at work coloring and shaping marzipan. |
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