Today is Easter Sunday! Happy Easter everyone!
It's been a pleasant weekend. Yesterday while I finished up my tax return, my wife and daughter attended a live performance by the Australian supergroup The Wiggles. If you don't have children, you probably don't know who The Wiggles are. That's okay. My sister and brother-in-law will be finding out soon enough. I can tell you that my daughter had a phenomenal time, and that Murray strutted up the aisle and was right next to her. She nearly fainted.
We started the day with a breakfast of fruit salad (a favorite of The Wiggles, incidentally) and bagels, and during the meal my wife perused the calendar of events in the local section of the newspaper. She pointed out to me that the copy for the various children's egg hunts and Easter activities never actually included the word "Easter." Spring Egg Hunt, Spring Festival for Children...not a single reference to the word "Easter" despite the fact that finding colored eggs was the focus of each and every activity listed. I suppose an implied reference to the resurrection of Jesus Christ is just too much for most readers. Mustn't have that.
Saturday's activities also included dyeing Easter eggs with my daughter, something we both very much enjoyed. Between us we produced some nice eggs, most of them pink.
Today it's just the three of us, and I am somewhat disappointed that we will not be able to share the holiday with either my family in South Carolina or my wife's family in Colorado.
I will miss being with my family at Easter, and fondly recall the many Easter Sundays spent at my grandmother's house in Greenville. She makes the best potato salad, and often my uncle would come through with a most delectable ham. My aunt Joice always makes tasty Easter treats, and I miss those as well.
I think my dad will be in Greenville with my grandmother, and perhaps my other uncles and aunts. My mother and sister will not be making the two hour drive to my grandmother's house, as my sister has a baby due later in the week.
So many things to celebrate!
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4 comments:
very nice easter post. don't mind the paper leaving "easter" out of their announcements - i sometimes think political correctness is just people who don't know any better doing the best they can with what little they have.
as i read your post, i'm struck by this question: how many times did you have to read and re-write before you settled on your spelling of "dyeing"? :) sad that i think of things like that, huh?
Now that all the children have grown up and moved away, Auntie Joice doesn't cook all them sweets any more. But you just let me know when you are comeing down and what you would like and I'll gladly fix it right up for you.
I'd think that "resurrection hunt" or "resurrection festival" would be more offensive than Easter.
My "dyeing" spelling secret is dictionary.com
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