Happy Easter!

Jesus is Risen!
Hallelujah!

Other than the freezing temperature and my getting only six hours of sleep, it was a pleasant day, complete with some much-welcome glimpses of sunlight between light snow flurries. Church began at 9 AM for everyone, no second service, no Sunday school or Nursery or anything to keep folks from worshiping together.

Our youngest took in her first Easter Egg Hunt this evening with her siblings' guidance, finding twelve not-so-hidden plastic eggs filled with one animal cracker each. She quickly learned to sit down with each egg and find the prize. She wasn't however allowed to eat all twelve tonight! The three older children were treated to a Hunt after lunch to find their hidden Easter baskets, and again later in the day to find candy-filled eggs. One year we hosted it in our backyard and invited a few neighbor children, which was lovely. I hope we can do that again some year when the weather cooperates. By the time that happens, though, our older children may be merely helpers to their younger siblings. A warm, sunny Easter is a rarity it would seem....

We had a fine feast, thanks to a great recipe for peppery roast and my industrious husband, who fixed it along with baked potatoes and his own cinnamony-sweet "holiday carrots." (Ham would have been preferred as a special treat, admittedly, but alas it wasn't in the budget this year.) While he worked at that, the children played with the neighbors outdoors and I duly "entered into His rest" with a good nap.