Because this past week was a little nutty with appointments and things going on, we crammed a lot of our little Easter and spring traditions into today, which was fun and messy and exhausting, considering we also spent the day moving Brody into his new big boy room (another post in itself). We planted our little pot of strawberries, which I have been promising the kids for weeks now -- ever since Sky saw a recipe card in the grocery store that she thought was a seed packet like they have in Home Depot, and shouted out "Mommy, look - cinnamon roll seeds!" :-)
We baked our Easter egg cookies and decorated them, then topped it all off by coloring our Easter eggs. It was hard to tear Brody away from the blue coloring, but he ventured out into green and yellow eventually (note these colors combined do form blue, don't they?). Then both kids ate a couple of the eggs that had cracked, and we discovered that they LOVE hard boiled eggs! So we have another breakfast item to add to our menu to mix things up a little during the week.
It's been sweet to talk with the kids about why Easter is special and why we celebrate the way we do - similar to how we're treating Christmas and Santa Claus, we've shared with them about the gift Jesus gave to us by dying for our sins and rising again. And we do fun things to make it more special, like the Easter Bunny and baskets and eggs - all to remember what Jesus did for us. It's really made us think more about the deep meaning of Easter this year too.
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