Before we had children, hubby & I didn’t really celebrate Easter or do anything for it – apart from buy each other lots of chocolate and stuff ourselves silly with it! When J arrived in the world, he was only a few weeks old when his first Easter came around, so yet again we didn’t really ‘celebrate’.
It was only last year that I decided to make our own celebration of it, and I prepared him an Easter basket; N had arrived in the world a few weeks before too, so we had to dress him as a bunny, of course…
This year, we have more plans – though N is still at that age where he’d much rather destroy everything, but J will be getting a lot more involved. During the week leading up to the Easter weekend, I have planned a few crafty activities.
When we were shopping recently, J picked up an Easter bonnet – I wasn’t planning on making one this year, but he has gotten really into his crafts lately, so I thought, why not? We have already made a start, though J has a short attention span, so I’m not sure how long it will take us!
He also loves helping me in the kitchen, so we’re going to make some cereal/chocolate/egg Easter nests, which should be good messy fun – and tasty too! I’m also going to prepare an Easter basket like I did last year, but the two of them can share it (in theory anyway) as I’m sure N won’t take much interest anyway.
We have family plans this year too. We will be staying with my mum for one night over the weekend as she had planned to do an Easter hunt for the boys; weather dependent, of course, though judging by the weather in the last couple of days, I’m not sure about that one! I’m certain the boys will still have lots of fun at Nanna’s, though, and we always get a yummy meal.
On Easter Sunday, we will be going to my brother-in-law’s for tea too, which means not a lot of cooking at all for us me over the Easter weekend!
It would be great if my mum-in-law could be here to see the boys having fun over Easter too, then it would be a complete family affair. Though if you recall my post about an experience J had around the anniversary of her death last year, she just might be here watching them anyway. I’d love to be able to talk to her one last time and may even consider a psychic reading from TheCircle in the future. Grandma would spoil the boys rotten with chocolate over Easter, even if we told her not to!
I’ll be back next week with lots of photos of our Easter adventures – I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
Do you have any plans for Easter? Have you ever had a psychic reading?
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