Easter 2011

Mary's sickest days were Friday and Saturday, John's sickest were Saturday and Sunday morning, so we couldn't attend Easter Mass. By Sunday afternoon the children were feeling well--although I know they were (are) still sick and contagious, and we had them on meager, sick kid food rations. We gave them their Easter basket and let them hunt plastic eggs, with the strict instructions that they were not allowed to eat any of the candy till they were no longer sick!

I asked to take a photo of the kids and Mary instantly climbed as high as she could to pose. FYI, John is wearing his pajamas, which he wore all day.

The 70-cent pinwheels were the most popular item in the Easter basket. The kids are simply mad for them!

We completed our Crown of Thorns Lenten craft by removing the remaining thorns. (I'm sure the kids had done enough good deeds, but the project had gotten away from me so I wasn't daily reminding the kids that they had just done a particular good deed and should go take out a thorn.)

Then we affixed "gemstones" (from the dollar clearance section of wedding decorations) so that Jesus could have a beautiful crown in Heaven.

For our Easter dinner feast, the children ate plain white rice while Chris and I ate take-out food so that we'd have no dishes to wash . . . since doing countless loads of laundry and sick kid clean-up had worn us out!