He is Risen indeed! We opted for church at home today, partially so we could be with Ben, partially because churches are packed on this Sunday. It meant we never got out of our comfy clothes, but we celebrated this wonderful day.
Joshua decided to make a bird house with some of his special Lego pieces. Since I suggested that for him, I was put in charge of making the bird. It isn't amazing, but it's cute.
We once again ended the day by all reading together on the couch and it was lovely.
Today, in the day between the sadness and the rejoicing, we did our secular Easter things. The kids dyed Easter eggs. Now that they're older I came up with the great idea of having them do it one at a time...this prevented all the "you still have an egg in that cup and I want that color" that I deal with. Hmm. I usually get the kits on sale after Easter: I suppose I could get two. Either way, it worked really nicely this year.
After dinner we did an egg hunt. Stuffing the eggs I got rather grumpy. I didn't prepare well and it really isn't a fun activity. I ended up with some Christmas candy, spare change, and *lots* of little pieces of paper for 2 minutes of screen time. I told them not to have very high expectations.
The hunt itself was pretty fun. The kids enjoyed it and like the odd places we found.
While the morning was rather laid-back, the afternoon was pretty full. We started with an escape room, a gift from Christmas. We solved it, but needed a few hints. One we should have been able to figure out, one was dumb but understandable, and one was tricky. Everyone had a good time though.
Then we went to Ben's work to pick up a car, since mine is at the shop. He gave us a tour of the facility...I've been there, but it's been a really long time. Joshua didn't remember it at all. He's moved desks (at least once) since I was there last so it's nice to have a new picture in my head.
After a quick stop home, we went rock climbing. It was the end of the month and we had an extra guest pass, so I was able to climb today too. I'm pretty bad.
After a quick nap and dinner we went to church for the Good Friday service.
Third grade did animal reports and they looked at each other's.
Third graders also read to kindergarteners as part of March reading month.
I started cleaning the closet shelves today. Turns out none of my belts fit me anymore...by quite a bit. I'll blame pregnancy changes.
I had a dentist filling today and it took all of about 11 minutes. I had plenty of (boring) things to do at home and was rather excited to get to them and start crossing them off.
Oh! Good news! The tooth fairy finally decided to come visit Isaac. He lost his tooth about two weeks ago and about once a week he calmly tells me the tooth fairy hasn't come and I comment on how bad she is at her job. She finally decided to come in the middle of the day because she felt a little bad.
I got a lot done today and it felt good. A ton of little stuff. I started cleaning out my closet. I got rid of many T-shirts and a few long sleeves. Really, it was less than I was expecting but I also don't need to completely empty the closets, I just need to get rid of stuff I know I won't wear again.
Wednesday I have several errands out of the house and then spring break starts Friday, so there might not be as many to-do items getting done. That's ok though...we'll have lots of fun.
It was a pretty normal day: church, lunch, nap, Legos, screen time.
My back/head/neck are starting to feel better. They were ok but warm and weird the last two days, but I didn't have any complaints today.
So yeah. This was a boring post.
Let's talk about the skid marks we saw on the neighborhood road the other day. They were some well defined marks that continued into (or came out of) a lawn. The grass was brown and dead, normal for this time of year, but the skid marks were so well defined in the lawn that it didn't just seem like dirt that was churned up. Although I'm just looking at it from inside a car because it's cold so I might not be the best judge. I'm sure I'll never hear what happened, but I'm intrigued.
