We Celebrated!

Ben has a fascination with calendars. He loves crossing off the dates, seeing who has a birthday coming up, and looking forward to planned events. A few weeks ago, he asked me when Easter was. I told him in a few weeks. He wanted to know the exact date so I told him to go look at his calendar and it would say "Easter." He ran to his room and I heard a big disappointed, "OH MAN!" I asked him what was wrong and he said, "It's on a Sunday! Are we going to be able to celebrate it?"

(Rewind to Halloween....it was on a Sunday and Ben chose not to go trick or treating. Instead he told his entire class and their parents that he would not be going trick or treating, but would be going to "church instead." Then there is the "Westy Walk," the school's huge fundraiser/festival next month.....again on a Sunday. The school does something nearly everyday just to prepare for it. Pep Rallies, t-shirt design contests, etc. Ben decided he wanted to "obey all of the commandments" and has chosen not to go. But now Easter? Would this be his breaking point?)

I smiled and informed Ben that Easter is always on a Sunday. I asked him why we had Easter and suddenly he had clarity. He was so relieved that "we would be able to celebrate." Just in case things were still a little fuzzy we took some time Monday night to review the Easter story. The kids loved learning about it.

We started off the festivities with an egg hunt at the Ebert home on Thursday! The neighbors invited the kids to a second egg hunt Friday night. They had so much candy already, the Easter bunny didn't even need to come, but of course he did!


Ben decided everyone needed to get ready for church before they started looking for their baskets. Sometimes I'm not sure where this kid comes from, but I won't complain!






We had a yummy Easter dinner with our friends, the Nelsons. Ham, cheesy potatoes, salad, cranberry mousse, rolls & chocolate pie! When you don't have family around you make your own family!