How was everyones Easter or Passover?
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| Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:45pm |
I was just curious if you all had a good holiday or if you don't celebrate anything then a good weekend? My Easter could have been better. It was spent in a hospital because my son has a collapsed lung. Saturday night he was getting ready to out and I was talking to him in the kitchen. It was really scary because all of a sudden his gripped his right side of his body and his breathing was labored and he started coughing. We went to the hospital and they did X-rays and he has a collapsed lung, but he is recovering well. The cause is unknown and he doesnt have a history of asthma or anything. So yesterday I brought food to the hospital and we had a small little Easter celebration there. It was nice actually, but next year I hope we just celebrate at home. How was all of your guy's holiday weekend?
Adelaide

It was a pretty relaxing weekend. I only worked half a day Saturday and kept Paul home from the sitter (we were under a severe thunderstorm watch, so I didn't think I'd get much done at the barn anyway, but the thunderstorms never came till late at night). We played in the garden and picked flowers for the house. Sunday I worked a couple of hours in the morning and Tom worked 3PM-11PM, so we just squeezed in a couple of hours of family time with the kids and gave Paul his Easter basket. When he went to work, I caught up on some projects around the house (taking out my summer clothes, putting away my winter clothes, organizing my closet, hanging pictures on the walls, stuff like that).
Hope you all had a great holiday!
Jane
oh gosh - that's terrible!! I hope your ds is feeling better.
I celebrate passover - and since i live in israel, a lot of people are on vacation for the entire week+, schools are closed, etc etc. OTOH - there is a LOT of eating and cooking and preparing etc. we don't eat foods with flours, or pasta, etc during the week of passover.
ALso, i don't like going places that are crowded with families and kids (i know, i sound terrible...) and i had a lot of homework so we were basically mostly hanging around at home.
back to work on thursday!! i can't believe it - but i am looking for ward to going back to work!!
OH MY GOSH@ The poor kid.... How is he doing? Yes, I imagine you would have preferred a nice Easter egg hunt or something.
Ours was blissfully dull by comparision. Dd and K tore into their Easter basekts, gorged on chocolate, then spent most of the morning searching for the chocloate eggs K brought from Germany. We hid hem the night before and Dh was especially creative in his hiding. After church, MIL came for dinner and it was - all and all - a peaceful and fun day.
How scary!
Connor is doing better thank you. He came home from the hospital today and is sleeping. He can't do anything strenuous and is really too tired to do much of anything right now. He is bummed though because it is spring break of his senior year and he was supposed to go camping with his friends this week, but can't. I feel bad he really needed a break from school too. Well I should go, but I am glad to hear that most of you had a good weekend.
Adelaide
Well, thank you for asking! I hope your DS is recovering well? How on earth did he collapse a lung?
Easter turned out well, in spite of it nearly running me over. I managed to get a ham on Saturday, made a pasta salad, hard-boiled 2 dozen eggs and DD and DS decorated them -- sort of. DS decided dying them was too much trouble so he got out the magic markers and well, we have some very interesting eggs this year.
We all worked the 9:30 service with ushering, acolyte, offering, etc. It was nice because the church was quite full for the first time in a long time.
We went to the Kiwana pancake breakfast at the elementary school after services, which got me off the hook for cooking breakfast. We went home and the kids dug through their baskets, and hunted for eggs. As if they were 2 and 4, instead of 12 and 14, there was squabbling, bickering and arguing over the eggs! I could NOT believe it. As well as the hard-boiled ones, I hid some plastic eggs and in addition to staples, push pins and vitamins I put in some, I tucked a couple $1 bills in a couple and they were having fits over who got those!
When things got out of hand, DH took DS for a horseback ride and did not come back until dinner time. DD and I spent the entire afternoon laying around and reading (I finally read the Da Vinci Code! Kind of an odd book to read during Lent, actually.) and when DH and DS came back, everything was much calmer, we had a nice ham dinner and sat in the hot tub after!
DS went back to school Monday, but DD is home this week for her break. She is having a nice time relaxing, reading and hanging out. It took her a few days to relax; she's so used to having tons of school work hanging over her head.
Oh ... and there is still a hard-boiled egg unaccounted for. No one can find it and I don't remember where I hid it! Whoops ...
I'm so sorry about your Easter - thank God your ds is okay. I was going to complain that my Easter was very wet and rainy - make that liquid sunshine. It hasn't rained in my neck of the woods on Easter Sunday since anybody can remember! I live in "sunny" California.
We therefore had an Easter egg hunt indoors for my ds10 and my dn8. They had fun. I didn't have time to get the engraved bibles I wanted to for my teens so I put an IOU in their basket with some candy. DS10 got a typical Easter basket. Of course we went to services, and the most exciting part was that my sister and nephew and her "SO" who is a non-believer, joined us for services.
We are a weird family, but the funniest part of Easter was watching everyone at my mom's house attempt to use a hula hoop. Remember those? I was laughing so hard I think I wet my pants. Sometimes you just gotta laugh.