Easter Sunday

I remember looking at the calendar at the beginning of the year thinking, "Easter sure is late this year", and now I am shocked that it is already upon us. It is so hard to keep the focus of the holidays on what they are meant to be. To help keep Easter on the resurrection the girls decided to memorize a Bible verse for Easter (Matthew 28:5-8), they practiced together on their own and have it down pat! There was a little fighting over whether or not to add motions and I am honestly not sure what came of that, they plan to recite it at my Mom's before we eat supper tonight. Hopefully, it will go off without a hitch or Ella will be in tears, Laney will be mad, and Keira, well, Keira won't care :)!

It is hard to think of Easter without thinking of dresses. Ella and Keira's dresses are laid out ready to go, and I just now at 1:00am on Easter Sunday got done adjusting Laney's dress. You might be thinking that is because I had to work so hard on it--wrong, it is just because I put it off until now. I have no idea what Clark will wear, and I don't know if the girls have shoes to match their dresses. I don't have a clue as to what I am going to wear and Tony, honestly, I don't even care what he puts on.  Does this make me laid back? A procrastinator? Busy? I think it is a combination of all three. Don't get me wrong, I would love to walk into church with all my girls in matching outfits, and Clark in something that coordinates. But that, my friends, takes planning and time neither of which I am good at. I am sure there will be several families at church that do this and I will wistfully look over and think they are adorable. But, I am also sure I will look over at my own and think the exact same thing!!! We did plan ahead and buy the stuff for the Easter baskets a couple of weeks ago. It was a combo effort, Tony picked up a few things and I went back and got a few more. I was tired tonight (worked last night) so I fell asleep around 9pm this was a little before my kids were asleep. Tony woke me up around 10pm and asked me if I wanted to put the baskets together and set them out. Well, I was tired and told him to just do it and to let Laney help him (this is her first year to know the truth about the Easter bunny so to help soften that blow, she is now in on the setting up). They did an awesome job!!! Everything looks great!

Of course, now at 1:00am I am wide awake, [[sigh]]such as the life as a night nurse. I am sitting here contemplating on how different life is now, as opposed to three or four years ago. Three years ago I would have never NOT had shoes ready to go for Easter Sunday, three years ago I would have shot Tony if he set the Easter basket stuff out without me, three years ago I would have something nice planned out to make for breakfast. Oh yeah, all my kids went to bed dirty and need a bath before church, that would have been stressful to me three years ago!!! It is so funny how time and circumstances can change one's perspective.  One thing that will never change though is, us striving to keep the focus on what it is meant to be on - Our God lives, and because He lives I can face the future!!! If this Easter season you have not read the Easter Story to your children take the time to stop and do it!!!