Happy Easter

It’s 6:50 am and we got home around 11pm last night with the boys still awake. They hung in there and refused to go to sleep at Uncle T and Aunt B’s until we arrived to pick them up. Although we rushed in, grabbed them and threw them in the car to run home for bed, it was almost 11pm before they hit the sack. We knew then we’d pay for their late evening today. From what they said, it was a great time. I heard they had something like chicken and blueberry muffins for dinner, mmmmm.

Our dinner was great, the company that is, the food didn’t turn out so well. Our hosts are so nice but she tried some new pork tenderloin recipe that didn’t work out. She (the cook) apologized as soon as she took her first bite but of course we all said , “no it’s not dry” and chewed on much like a horse chewing it’s cud. Anyhow the company, (our hosts and our other friends, Jeff and Tina) and us had a great time. They live a good 45 minutes away from our home so it took us a while to get there and it seemed even longer to get home.

The house is polished, as much as it can be with two little boys running around, awaiting our guests around 1pm. Mom is in the shower as we need to leave for church in 45 minutes. We thought about going to the 9:30 service but think the boys will be in full Easter mode (or meltdown mode from lack of sleep) by then wanting to look for eggs, baskets and play with their friends so we’re shooting for the 8am service.

We (the misses, I actually did nothing except help her shop) have quite the spread planned for our Easter celebration. I’m looking at the menu on the chalk board in the kitchen and it includes ham, scalloped potato’s, french toast, sausage, green beans, fruit, green salad, key lime pie, chocolate cream pie and chocolate cake. I think the 3 desserts was my wife’s idea. On top of this I’m sure the bloody mary’s and bubbly will be flowing although I’m personally planning on trying to abstain. I wish my gym had some kind of Easter service. It’d be nice to workout and have the service at the same time. My back somehow got tweaked while sleeping and hurts a little bit on one side. I’ve got to run now to jump in the shower and will finish up when we get home.

10:22 and we’re home from church and have found a trove of treasure outside in the form of 36 colored eggs, a couple baskets for each boy and a couple of small stuffed dragons, one red and one green. The Easter Bunny sure was busy while we were at church. It was almost standing room only at church and appeared to be even more crowded for the 9:30 service after ours as there was a huge line of people. It seems more people are reaching out to God these days which is a good thing. Just taking a look at the events of any recent day all over the World, this can only be a good thing! They closed today’s sermon with Hallelujah sung by the choir and congregation which was magical. Don’t know if you know the version I’m talking about but if you do, you know what I mean. It builds and builds throughout the hymn, and right now, I can’t get it out of my head. The boys did pretty well for not getting much sleep. We dropped Mom off to give Bunkie his morning shot and the boys and I went to pick up 3 Easter lilly’s, one for my Mom, one for L.O.L. down the street and one for my lovely wife, who by the way looked stunning at church. After dropping two off, we headed home for the “hunt”. It didn’t take long for the boys to root out their treasure with the skill of an old bloodhound. Mom had to stop them until she could run in and get the camera so they wouldn’t finish before she got outside.

Time for a few hard boiled eggs, thinking about a bloody mary, (wait wasn’t I going to abstain 2 hours ago!) but will wait as people don’t arrive for 2 1/2 hours. Both boys are melting down due to lack of sleep and sugar from assorted jelly beans and such. We need to quickly get some protein (in the form of hard boiled eggs) into them as this is the only antidote! With a little divine intervention, maybe, just maybe, we can avoid a full blown meltdown!

It seems like Mom didn’t even clean at all yesterday even though I know she spent hours on the house. The wrecking crew (our 2 boys) can demolish a house in a matter of minutes. Time to go and give her a helping hand as it’ll probably take the remaining two hours (before people arrive) to get everything done.

May God bless all of you on this holiest of days, we hope you have a very Happy Easter,

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