Happy Easter!

We spent much of Holy Week in Indiana. In between the four days worth of church, we worked to get the house ready for tenants.

But it was largely a celebration time both in church and out. We met parish friends for dinner on two evenings, took Easter baskets to some former daycare kids, said goodbye to old neighbors, celebrated Kate's birthday, gathered with with the girls and some guests for an Easter brunch and had the annual Easter Kiester Egg Hunt.

For her 24th birthday Kate requested a Barbie cake, reminiscent of the three or four years in a row as a child when she insisted on having a Barbie cake. Icing this one reminded me of why I grew to hate Barbie during those earlier years.

Before we went to Mass this morning Kevin hid around 100 coin filled plastic eggs for the Easter Kiester Egg Hunt ( so named after one infamous year when, in the frenzy of egg grabbing, one sister grabbed another's elastic waisted skirt and it was revealed that Easter is, apparently, an underwear optional holiday.)

Knowing that, with two boyfriends being included this year, the egg quantity would be tight, the girls were in rare form. But, as Father John said about the Easter Vigil, "A successful Easter Vigil is one full of mess and one where no one dies," so went the egg hunt. The 'kids' (ages 24 to 41) had a great time scrambling for eggs. And Kevin and I had an even better time watching the chaos break forth. Thankfully, the Easter Kiester didn't make an appearance this year. So all ends well for another traditional Easter Day in our family!