Easter Weekend

Where to began!  Over the last few days during our Easter week end, our world has been anything but laid back.  My husband arrived back from his business trip and with that arrives all the bells and whistles.  More laundry, grocery trips, family outings etc. To add to this usual bustle my Mothers poor Pepper dog passed away  on Good Friday and on top of that my brother came to spend the weekend with them.  That was a useful distraction.  So on our usual movie night given at my house every week due to the fact we have a large TV screen and access to Netflix ,  it had more of a family reunion feel.  Wouldn't you know that very night our cable blew out and the  movie that we were going to rent off of direct TV could not be rented so we had to watch the "Dark Knight".  Oh wait there is more.  Come Easter morning for some reason I noticed that my youngest sons' hair was way to long to go to Mass.  So with clippers in had (after preparing a wonderful Easter breakfast) I went to cutting his hair.  Oh I don't know about any our you out there in cyberspace but when I start a project, time seems to just pass with out notice and that is just what it did.  Soon it was 11:15 and with Mass starting at 12:00 on the dot the only people in my house that can get dressed that quick are boys and men.  So to the showers they went and soon I settled down to just be still and catch my breath a blessing in its self.  By that afternoon my husband gets this great idea that we will go for a drive and have a picnic.  We pack our picnic gear and head off for an hour drive to get some fried chicken and potato salad at  the store, all the time taking back roads so that I can get photographs to add to my art stash. Me snapping photos of old barns and rustic roads.  Now mind you, I said that Mass was at 12:00 so that put Jim returning home at around 1:30 (due to traffic) and that we had not eaten lunch yet and the store in the direction that we were now headed was at least 1 hour away so that put us there at about 3:00 starving and I  don't know about anyone else but during the long drive I had not seen any sign of a picnic area!  So with chicken and potato salad in the back (let me tell you it smelled soooooo good) we struck back the way we came.  Now here is were things turn a bit from happy to just wanting to stop and eat the damn food. 

We drove all the way back home never finding a spot to stop so we ended up eating at our picnic table at our house.  

Oh well none of us can ever be angry or upset at each other for long.  In fact it lasted just until the first few bits of food and then we were just fine.  

After a wonderful lunch and dinner combined, Jim, ( and here is the big news event!)  MOWED THE LAWN! 

 I could not believe it.  I got the weed eater and went to work getting the edges done and the walk cleared.  Oh it was great.  Christopher died his eggs and then we hid them along the walk.  

As the sun settled down Jim and I went on the porch and smelled the fresh cut grass mingled

 with the sweet sent of flowers and sipped our water and thought what a wonderful Easter! With out all the ups and downs and adventure in life things would be pretty dull.