Perfect Weekend.

My firm gave everyone Thursday and Friday off, an accountant's holiday after a busy tax season. It was nice having the extra day off. Yesterday I bribed the kids into picking weeds with the reward of lunch at our favorite new ice cream parlor. They didn't do a very good job on the weeds honestly but I wanted to go to lunch and have ice cream so bad that I let it slide. We had a great Good Friday yesterday and that was a yummy part of it. My friend Kim works at the ice cream parlor and she made me the most wonderful sundae with extra hot fudge just the way I like it, I was in ice cream heaven!

After I don't even want to tell you how many times he asked, I finally got over to the tennis courts this morning with Wyatt. It's been the last thing he says before bed every night for like I said I will not tell you how long. "Ma? When are we gonna go play tennis?" Well lookie here, I finally dragged my lazy buttons off to the court this morning with my poor little tennis starved boy. I totally forgot how much I love that game. Wyatt was the happiest kid on the planet, he kept telling me that this was the best day of his life! The kid has talent too, I'm totally putting him in lessons! It may have been the best morning of my life too.

After tennis with Wyatt, I took my three most recent born to an egg coloring party at a friend's house. That is another thing that I often neglect. It'll be the day after Easter, or many days after, and my kid's will say to me, "we didn't color our eggs yet!" So we will do it many days after, or not at all. Funny, that happens in the fall with our pumpkins sometimes too! Bad mama--not this year!











This is the first year that we are celebrating, with our presence all three days at church anyway, the Tridium. Sarah was an altar server at the Holy Thursday mass and yesterday, Emily was Mary in a live reenactment of the stations of the cross, despite the drizzly rain it was beautiful. The young people do such an amazing job of the portrayal of Jesus' passion. Emily was extremely nervous when she was getting ready to go to the church and was getting very cold feet, but she pulled it off. I was super proud of her!





Tonight Sarah is serving again at the Easter vigil and this will be the first time we attend this mass since before we had children, I think. To me this is the most beautiful time of year.

I walk around the house nowadays and laugh/cry to myself, I am not even trying to pretend that my house is clean anymore. And worse, I'm trying to blame it on my job. I think I have reached the peak of housekeeping chaos/ridiculousness, with having four little pigs mess-loving kids (and a husband) and trying to teach them to clean up after themselves and do their part of making our home a nice, clean place to live. So far it's not working out so good, so very very not so good. Eva is especially hard to convince and she tries to use her evil sweet five year old charms to wriggle her way out of everything! She's a menace I tell you! I don't need a Dennis when I have an Eva! Here is a perfect example: she recently had a friend over and her room was as if a super-natural disaster had occurred. I asked her to clean it, and to that she proclaimed that it was obviously her friend's fault and made a sign to put on her door that says, in her cute little bubble letters, "NO PEOPLE ALLOWED or FRIENDS," and to her this solved the problem completely!



Happy Easter. I hope it's beautiful for you too, with all your people and your friends, even if they tear up your house. Let it be, enjoy the moment, and clean up sometime afterwards.