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Follow the Money

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Every year, Great-Grandma raids Great-Grandpa’s change jar, fills up her plastic Easter eggs, and stages an Easter egg hunt in their family room.  This began at some point during Auntie’s childhood, but now that Auntie is too old to hunt the eggs, she hides them. Once the eggs were hidden, the hunt was ON. Tad […]



Easter Sunday

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

We got up extra early on Easter Sunday.  I really really really had to be on time for first service at church, since I was scheduled for nursery duty.  (We ended up with six kids total, so not so bad.)  So the Webmaster and I got up and moving and dressed, and then got the […]



Easter Egg Hunt

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Saturday was easily the most gorgeous day in recent memory.  The sun was shining, there was just a whisper of a breeze, and the grass was mostly dry.  Perfect conditions for an Easter Egg Hunt!  Especially considering that the last three years have been so rainy that I made the kids wear rain boots and […]



Wild and Crazy

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

We’ve had a very wild and crazy week.  Not exactly what I had in mind for the week leading up to Easter. Rerun has been progressively getting better, but he still puts up quite a fight when it comes to taking his medicine.  The doctor who saw him on Monday also said that he had […]