We had a string of holidays lately, and there is a surprising lack of pictures to go along with them. Well, I suppose it's not very surprising. They keep me busy.
St. Patrick's Day was on Sunday at the end of our Spring Break. I made green pancakes before church, key lime cookies for snacks (which do not come with frosting, thankyouverymuch Pillsbury), and we had a corned beef and cabbage dinner, with a cocnut lime float/drink (SO YUMMY). We don't have naughty leprechauns do tricks around the house or leave gold coins or anything, because...I guess I don't want to get that into it. I want it to be an easy, as-little-thought-and-preparation-as-I-can-get-away-with kind of holiday. Since we still have to eat, I can add some green here and there. We managed to find enough green church clothing to avoid any pinching, too.
For Chinese New Year, we...just kidding. We didn't do anything for that.
On the week of Easter, I took Benson and Tessa to our playgroup Easter Egg Hunt. It was a bit windy and cold, but nice to be outside with friends. And look! I did take a few pictures!
Proof that her hair is not always out of control...
...even when mine is. (Thank you wind.)
We did Easter baskets, dyed eggs, and had an egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter for the kids. Ben was gone late the night before, so it was lucky that the Easter Bunny got it all ready in time. Good job, Bunny.
There were some black jelly beans involved, and apparently my children do not like them, as several were found on the floor throughout the day. Well, all children but the one who is not allowed to have jelly beans. He kept finding stray black beans, and we would find out a couple minutes later when the black drool began. It is the feature of the sole picture of the day:
I already blogged about our lovely Easter Sunday. It was restful and restorative, physically and spiritually. That is not the case for most Sundays, so I was extra grateful for this day.
For April Fools Day, I had a little fun. I always put a plastic bug in the kids' school lunch sandwiches, so they now expect it. Scott apparently got a good reaction from a teacher as she walked by when he was removing it. For dinner, I did the popular (at least on other blogs) dinner/dessert switch. I made meatloaf "cupcakes" with mashed potato "frosting," which we ate first, and then I served vanilla pudding, tinted the shade of tomato soup, in mugs with grilled pound cake slices filled with tinted orange frosting, which looked a lot like grilled cheese sandwiches. It was funny to watch the reactions of the kids--first excitement about cupcakes, then confusion that they were meat and potatoes, then doubt and caution with the pudding and cake, and excitement when they finally tasted them. Scott asked that I make it for every April Fools Day, but I think I'll have to teach him how. It was a lot of work for a Monday dinner!
And finally, General Conference. While not really a holiday, there is candy involved, and a day off of Primary, so I think listing it here is valid. Let me say first how grateful that I am that Conference sessions are so redily availble for review so soon after the actual conference. Let me now say that I got very little out of watching it with my children. I may not have been an example of patience and good will. But all is well, all is well. Scott took some notes (earning himself some extra candy) that he used while bearing his testimony for the first time in Sacrament Meeting, so I actually consider it a success.
If you've made it this far, you deserve some of my leftover candy. Come over and I'll get some for you from my private stash. Shhh!
