How did your Easter holiday go?
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How did your Easter holiday go?
| Sun, 04-08-2007 - 8:42pm |
Howdy Gang
Wishing your family a wonderful Easter
The family did just "us" today. It was nice and peaceful. DS took a 2 hr nap while dh, me and my dad had our dinner.
DS doesn't eat ham so I the short order cook that I am LOL whipped up some pasta after the child woke.
Here I sit now, full and VERY bloated waiting for my dishes to be dry to put away.
DS did really good the past few days with all the shopping and transitions at the mall (yikes scarey).
I am at peace.
God Bless
Nora

Glad to hear yours went well. Ours went mostly well.
On the good side, Dave Sang! I posted that separately.
Another Good. Mike was AWESOME at the inlaws. When we first arrived I thought we were in for a rough day but he hung out near us adults and wanted to help for a while. He loves positive praise and helping. It got him back in a good way. Then he helped hide the eggs and even helped the smallest cousins find eggs. Again, he loves to be a helper and is great with little kids. He played tag and such with the kids outside the rest of the day. Because he has grown about another 3 inches and is the oldest boy by a long shot, the other cousins go between looking up to him and teasing him. Today they were looking up to him and mostly it went really great. No hitting, barely any yelling and all he redirected himself. I was VERY proud. He wasn't as perfect going in or on the way home, but I am proud of him anyway.
The bad was from poor Cait. She started to "not feel well" about 1/2 way through the visit and hid in watching a movie. She was just not interactive but since she had way more junk that usual I didn't think much of it.
Well, I soon found out why when we were telling her we had to get ready to go because there is school tomorrow. She then went into the first of 2 full blown meltdowns. Teh second was about school too. She is really stressed about it and going back is hard. I really felt for the poor kid.
Renee
Church didn't go so well. Weston was off from the start of the morning. DH and the big kids had to sing in the early service so we waited until after Church to find eggs and Easter baskets (the bunny hides those too). Weston's Sunday School teacher is a good friend and said he just went over in the corner and sat w/ his hands over his ears, wouldn't join in at all, didn't want anyone to bother him. (he's way too high functioning to go to the 'Sonshine Saints' class but he's really starting to stick out from his peers in the other Sunday School class). Normally we are able to have a little 'breathing space' between our family and the next in the pew. Often Warren or Martha will sit on the other side of him so he doesn't have to be by someone he doesn't know, but Warren and Amelia were singing so there wasn't a buffer next to him. Also, the church was REALLY full and he had to sit w/i a person width next to someone he didn't know. Finally, the brass ensemble & timpany were playing and he's always more uptight then (I think it has to do w/ the vibrations they make and his SID).
We didn't do anything else special for Easter, had a fairly calm day. DH helped all the kids clean their rooms (he was very admirable and didn't loose his cool and was VERY patient). Also, we got Weston an i-pod in his basket-- DH charged it and put a bunch of music on it for him-- he was a very happy camper!
Now we have a whole week off school-- yea! I have to work alot because I have a show coming up this weekend, so Weston will be in heaven-- no time to go anywhere so he'll be able to stay home all week!
Betsy
Ours was quiet.
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We had a very quiet Easter, very uneventful, and very nice.... for the first time in YEARS!
We didn't have a big dinner, instead we had brunch. My DGM and niece (both on the spectrum) were here, and since my DN had to be back in school in San Diego today they had to leave by 2pm yesteryday, thus we had brunch at 11 am.
Normally I get saddled with doing all the work. I have to do all the cooking, the cleaning, the dishes, etc. But this time I was shooed out of the kitchen as soon as brunch was over. DH and the kids did the dishes and cleaned up!
The only mishap we had was, well, MY mishap... I killed 2 dozen eggs by forgetting them on the stove the night before. I had set them to boil and then when to check on something 'real quick'. Yup, mom got sidetracked and forgot. 2 hours later my DN comes in and says "Aunt Kandi, I don't think your supposed to fry eggs IN the shell..." LOL. The kids all thought that was funny, that mom was so flighty brained, so I forgiven. And we sacrificed the eggs I had bought for brunch for coloring, which wasn't as many, but we did have a few.
~Cadnes
We had a good Easter.
Henry was excited about the Easter bunny, so he was pretty cooperative in getting dressed for church. I wouldn't let him go see what the bunny brought until he was dressed.
He got Max & Ruby beanie babies in his basket. Those are characters from one of his favorite shows. He has really gotten to be a good reader lately, and he got an easy "Read and Learn" Bible. Plus some plastic eggs and candy.
Henry was also excited to go in Mark's room and tell him that the Easter bunny came, then he showed Mark all that the bunny brought for him.
Everyone was good at church.
Glen took Henry to play Putt-Putt golf in the afternoon. My dad went with them, too. Then we all went to my parents' house for more egg-finding fun and dinner in the evening.
Ours was good...all things considered. With my being in Chicago for Oprah earlier in the week, I wasn't as prepared as I'd liked to have been, but SUPRISE! everything was fine even though I hadn't obsessed for hours on end beforehand. ;-P
We headed to see my mom Friday afternoon, and help her prepare for the onslaught of family members. All total there were 36 of us...one of the better turn outs in recent years. Thank goodness that's only about a 3rd of my immediate family members or we'd never be able to move in that house! (Immediate family = brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces and spouses/signif. others.)
Our kids had a good morning. They all still believe, which is fun. Marc and I took the older two to church and mom stayed home with Claire. While she's okay at normal, weekly masses, she can't handle packed churches full of people singing, etc.
As always one of my brothers had to make some completely inappropriate, nasty comment about me. Sometimes it's my clothes, sometimes it's my family...but usually it's my weight. This time it was my weight. When my older sister was asked, "How much weight have you lost?" She responded, "55 pounds." So the a**hole looked at me and said, "I think you should try HER diet!" Yet another reason why I want to get the flip out of this state.
Went pretty good, but I am seeing more and more how sugar definitely affects the kids' behavior! The biggest mishap was that RIGHT after telling AS dh NOT to turn on the oven because I'd hid the baskets in there, he forgot. Then, he decided to turn on the oven to get it ready to heat the breakfast I'd set out. Fortunately I discovered the problem BEFORE the silly string cans in the baskets exploded. The miniature chocolate bunnies were liquid, but most everything else was okay (tho' the cheap plastic grass had fused together). The kids were uncharacteristically forgiving about the whole thing and just happy to have their baskets.
We had a quiet family day at home which was a nice way to spend the day, especially when the kids had too much sugar (even tho' we cut back the amount of candy each year, it seems to take less and less to set them off).
We also got to do the White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington DC today. The kids did better than they've done when we've gone before, and although we had a handful of meltdowns, they were all resolve-able and didn't last too long. Whew!
Oh how fun, I read about your dh on another thread about standing in line for the Easter Egg roll at the White House.
Well my sil had the annual Easter celebration/kids birthday celebration at her house. It was on Saturday and of course I had to work. I was kinda sad and the kids were disappointed I couldn't go, but sometimes life happens.
Since they got soooooo much candy with the Easter Egg hunt my sil does, I hardly did any candy. I got them a trampoline and one chocolate bunny. They were happy and they are using the trampolines.
My son (7yr old) was disappointed that the easter bunny didn't hide eggs easter morning, but I explained that he knew he got to do it at Aunt Lisa's instead. (I have to say I flaked this year with all thats been going on) I did the trip to Stanford last tues and had to also stay up all night (wens night) to keep Chris up for a sleep deprived EEG, and then I had to work on thurs. It was hard catching up with our sleep.
All in all they were happy. Glad we have another year to go for another Easter tho lol.