Easter has become my very favorite holiday...
For many, many reasons.
I am so thankful for the true meaning of Easter.
I've heard it said - after you've lost someone you love- Easter becomes the most meaningful day of the year. Because of the great gift our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ has given us-- He Lives!
We will live again & so will all those we love!
How beautiful - how wonderful!
Megan, bless her heart, sent us these darling pictures of the boys.
Oh I love them- the boys and the pictures.
Charlie is a sunbeam now!
He sang Easter Hosanna with the other children in the congregation, then returned to his seat & declared that he is "bigger now." Of course he is.
Our Easter table was a a pastel delight with some of my collection of bunnies & lots of goodies I have picked up from work. It is so fun to open up the storage box & find all the treasures I have forgotten about year after year.
On our Easter Menu:
Glazed Turkey Breast
Brown Sugar & Pineapple Roasted Spiral Sliced Ham
Green Bean Bake
(my kids have to have it)
Steamed Asparagus
This potato dish is so incredible! I found it on printerest & I will be making them now every Easter for the rest of my life. No kidding - they were so good. Find the recipe here!
Somehow I missed myself & Laura in the photos.
We were there.
And Look Who Else Was There!!!!
Finn & Crew
The best part of Easter this year
was that Brian & Laura surprised me & brought the babies to our congregation for church. We all sat together & yes I was teary, but these were tears of Joy. I was overwhelmed- feeling so blessed after such a hard winter. It was an absolute joy having almost all our children at church with Brett & I. I don't think there is anything better than that! We have (Chloe & I) missed a lot of church- a lot, because she has been in the hospital or too fragile to go (doctor's orders.) It has been good to be home- she needed it- I needed it. She is coming to terms with her new life, we all are. A new life with the tourettes syndrome & the anxiety that comes with it. It's a good life, but it is different than it was before.
It is not easy. I don't know how she does it?
I have spent a lot of Sundays in tears as I listen to my
children tic while the rest of the congregation sits silently.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate that it is so public & that they have to have this at all!
But it is what it is & we are moving forward & I am happy to be here.
Happy that it is not worse- it can always be worse.
Happy to have my trials- they are mine. I don't want them, but I don't want to trade.
This is all I am going to say about that.
I haven't made a cheesecake in years!
I am out of practice....
but it was delicious!
Thank you Jenny Steffens Hobick for your delightful blog!
After dinner we dyed eggs
SO FUN!
Brittany & Jack
made these two above!
HA-- Love them.
Chloe did this one- Oh I love them.
Happy Easter
