Well, out of all the blogs that I read/check on a daily basis, I thought I’d be the first to blog about Easter. But I just looked through my blogs and realized that I’m not. (Darn you Katy and Colette.) However, I know I’m going to be busy later and since Josh is gone with Jay watching a movie, I thought now would be the most opportune time for me to try and blog about Easter.
Our Easter started about a week and a half ago when my mother in law asked me if I’d like to host an Easter meal at my house this year. I said fine because I love hosting things at my house and it’s more ‘convenient’ to have things at our house because of all the children, etc. Also because I’m insane. Beginning last Monday, I began the week with a bang in beginning to pre-clean for the big event. I cleaned all day Monday and all day Tuesday. On Wednesday my friend Christine came over to help me lay new floor in my bathroom. So I didn’t get much else done on Wednesday, but I did get a new floor in my bathroom. Thursday, I don’t really remember what I did, but by Friday the house was a mess again. Thankfully Josh got “Good Friday” off so he was able to help me. I was able to get out of the house and go shopping to prepare for the dinner. Saturday was totally designated to cleaning the house..but before I just glaze over that last sentence, let me elaborate.
Saturday. We woke up on Saturday with high hopes of blazing together (Josh and I) through the house and getting it clean. We must not have been very determined because by about noon we only had 2 rooms done. Now let me back up a bit. Our main toilet in our house clogged on about Thursday? Friday? I don’t remember. So it’s been unusable. I tried a drain opener type thing with no long term success, so we were trying to figure out what to do with our toilet before company came. While Josh and I sat down for a few minutes to eat lunch, we decided to put the girls in their room to play so they weren’t climbing all over us. After about 10-15 minutes, Josh went to go let them out. He immediately came back to where I was and said, “Kristi, come here.” So I got up and followed him into the girls’ room. Lo and behold there were 3 girls with 2 tubs of vaseline plus a big vat of homemade diaper rash cream. Cream covered their bookshelf, their books, their toys, their table, their window, their floor. Not to mention their heads and coated their hair. Oh. Man. I don’t know if any of you have ever tried to clean up vaseline, but it is a very difficult thing to clean up. Especially out of hair. So the girls headed for the bathtub while Josh tried to clean up the room. This took about an hour out of our schedule. After cleaning up the girls as best as we could we put the down for a nap. I realized that it was very wet under our kitchen sink. We knew when we moved in that under our kitchen sink needed some attention, one of the pipes leaked and one of them was held up with a stick. Not the best plumbing job. Well, the sink decided that it had had enough yesterday afternoon and it decided to pour all over. So Josh headed over to home depot to fix the problem. And then to home depot again to get another piece that he needed. Meanwhile this is wasting another 2 hours of our day. But the end result is that now we have a clean, dry under the sink. By this time it’s dinner time and I’m trying to make dinner in a very small area of space since the majority of the kitchen is taken over by under the sink contents. I finish making dinner and by the end of that both Josh and I are pretty burnt out of cleaning. However, Josh decides to do some cleaning up of the yard since we were hoping to do the egg hunt outside. So we took all the kids outside. By the time the yard got presentable looking, the girls were covered in dirt and mud so back to the bathtub they went. After the girls go down to bed, I get out the fabric that I bought and begin to make my table runners and napkins for the next day. (Nothing like waiting til the last minute, I know) I would have totally bought these things, but I didn’t have time to do a lot of running all over and I couldn’t find anything I liked at Wal-Mart. I generally like Wal-Mart, but they get a D- this year for good Easter decorations.
So I spend the remainder of the evening sewing. The next morning we decided to go ahead and “brave” going to church. But we have to get the girls to my mom’s house on the way because they wouldn’t be able to go the nursery with all the green snot they’ve been producing this week. Okay, this post is getting long and boring..anyway, we went to church, stopped at the grocery store one last time for forgotten items, got home, finished cleaning the house (with the help of my mother in law), got dinner going and somehow pulled off a successful dinner and family time. And then because I was feeling so brave, I offered to let two of my nieces spend the night..unfortunately Allison had already left with Macy, otherwise I would have asked her too. As I write this, I have given the kids a 20 minute bedtime warning. The are sitting in the living room playing with playdoh..I plan on pancakes in the morning and hopefully the boys will have so much fun and be entertained with their cousins that they won’t fight so much. I can’t stand the fighting. What is it with boys? Anyway, that was the story of my Easter. But after that whole long story, I didn’t even touch on the most important part of Easter. The whole reason for Celebration.. the reason for my life and the romancer of my heart. Jesus. Because of what He did on the cross for me, for you, for all of us, we are able to be rescued from the sin within and the sin without. He gives us comfort and shelter and a place to rest. If not for that, I would be lost. Happy Easter. He Is Risen.
