Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Easter Revival

Holidays are always chaotic at the love shack and Easter was no exception. As with most occasions I am the one solely responsible for making memories and magic.

Friday, which as I shared before, was a rather lovely day. After our little fender bender I took Cade, Ava and Amonte to the mall to see the Easter bunny. Peyton begged out insisting that the Easter bunny is "gay" and he was simply too "old" to participate in such nonsense. Amonte of course really is too old to see the rabbit-he was just along to look at girls. Cade swore for at least a week that he was "not a fraidy cat" and that the bunny is "harmless". Once we got in line it was a whole another story. We waited at least a half hour with him saying he was going to sit with the bunny -but looking rather anxious. Ava freaked the moment she saw the critter and spent the time clinging to my leg and chewing on her shirt. We never made it past the entrance before they both completely lost it. So no pics this year. I do however have lots of pics of them waiting in line. But for some reason I can't get them up on blogger.

Of course there was also the shopping for things that don't actually exist (but do in the mind of a four year old), searching for things that exist but are impossible to find and returning of purchases made in dire hopes of making up for the inability to procure unobtainable goodies. In the end everyone was happy with their baskets. Well, I say everyone. I have no clue how Amonte felt about his as he spent the weekend at his sperm donors-returned home-went to his room and shut the door never to be heard from again. I have noticed the candy litter on the bedroom floor and Peyton informed me he had watched his movie so I can assume he was pleased.

Easter day was spent lazing around. As we had our dinner on Friday I really didn't feel it necessary to repeat it for just the terrorists and me. They were plenty happy snacking on their baskets. We passed on hunting for eggs in eight inches of snow, but we did manage to color a few dozen. Ava had great fun and kept drinking the egg bath. Luckily it was non-toxic as I don't think I could maintain any amount of sanity with another ER visit. Peyton and Cade tossed a couple at each other-thankfully after they were boiled so no harm. Next year our goal is to make it out of our pj's.

Hope you had a wonderful Easter. Maybe the pics will load later...

20 comments:

  1. sounds like things went fairly smoothly! how's amonte's backside?

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  2. I was wondering how Amonte's doing too...
    Glad you guys had a pretty low key weekend after the way it started out!!

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  3. Happy Easter! I'm all out of candy already...isn't that sad?

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  4. Ahhh, Ava was drinking the egg bath? How could she stand the vinegar? Ewwe. Kids are weird, not specifically yours, but kids in general.
    Glad you had a peaceful day!

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  5. send the pics to yerself via an e-mail and then save them from that, sometimes the size has to be reduced.

    Does Peyton have any proof about the easter bunny? if so my news blog could do with the scoop.

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  6. Hey, what's wrong with Easter pj's?

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  7. glad you had a good easter! I didn't even try to make it to the easter bunny! And seriously whats the point in trying to get out of pjs!?!?!

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  8. I can't believe Peyton told you the Easter Bunny is gay. Oh man!

    It sounds to me like you had a great Easter Sunday :) Lounging in jammies and dipping eggs.......to me, that sounds wonderful :)
    (how on earth was ava able to down the dip!?!?!)

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  9. Oh, I'd love to see those pics:)

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  10. I she pooping lemon yellow and green from the egg dye?

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  11. i think spending easter in your pj's is the perfect way to spend the day. :)

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  12. ewww egg bath...what color did her tongue come out?? And for how long did it last :)

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  13. Your house sounds like so much fun! I love the Easter Bunny story. Poor Kids! Although, if I remember right, I was terrified of the little critter too!

    I am glad that you had a good Easter!

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  14. My Easter sucked. Check my blog for details.

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  15. I love Easter, the days off really rock my boat. I had eggs for breakfast but I didn't color any.
    Sounds like good family stuff at your house.
    Glad you had a good Easter.
    I followed a link from Witchypoo's to yours.

    Hi

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  16. i'm not sure what's wrong with me...but i've never colored eggs with sage!! so sad!

    next year.

    i love reading your posts.

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  17. Easter bunny as in sexual orientation or gay meaning goofy or stupid? I was just curious! He is a funny kid. I love it!

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  18. After Santa, I wasn't even going to attempt the Easter bunny. You are a brave woman bring two of them. I definitely think I'll dye eggs next year.

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  19. Peyton's insistence that the Easter Bunny is "gay" totally cracked me up! Sounds like you had a fairly nice Easter. How's Amonte feeling lately, anyway?

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