Happy Easter!

Well, at least this time for a special holiday, I didn't forget to add Chip to the picture! I sent all my Christmas cards out and forgot to put Chip in them! I felt horrible so I had to make up for it! This year, I got on the pendelum swing once again and decided I was anti-Easter. I DID NOT say I was anti-Christ. I was simply over the whole bunny basket Easter tradition that our culture has created. This year, I really wanted to do something more meaningful with the kids as a way of remembering and celebrating our Savior. So what did we do? We took the kids to see a special musical on Good Friday. You know I had a picture right? We would have dinner, we would get the children showered and dressed and we would see this meaningful Good Friday celebration of the Lord's Supper, etc. Well, we got seated in a very, very dark auditorium that was decorated. We sang for worship and when I went to sit down, I sat on Jack because he was laying down in the pew. Strike 1. Spencer kept kicking the bottom of the pew in this sanctuary that you could hear a pin drop and Jack would not stop kicking the pew in front of us. Strike 2. THE final blow of the evening after I had REPEATEDLY asked Jack to stop fidgeting, giggling and kicking was when I looked over at him and he had removed his flip flops (don't ask me why he was wearing them for a nice evening out - it's too long) but he had kicked them off and was biting his toenails. Strike 3. At that moment, I really wanted the floor to open up and suck me into it forever. I really did think I was going to die at that moment. It was just a moment. And I proceeded to squeeze his little leg and really wanted to squeeze it until it turned purple but I refrained. And in his favor, the words to the song after was about grace and all I could think of was I didn't deserve grace but I received it. So I didn't squeeze Jack. But he did go to bed early for his naughtiness. I don't think he cared. He was just happy to have the hangnail off his toe :) As my friend Cami says, "expectations are our enemies!"