Hello Easter Monday

Good Monday morning friends. Also strangers and lurkers and visitors here today from both the A-Z Challenge and Holly (Pink Lady Blog) and Sarah's (Sunshine and Books) Hello Monday hop. I'm happy today's letter in the A-Z Blog Challenge is one that allows me to still share my weekend recap. Here we go-

Day 5-E is for Easter 

My theme this year for the challenge is The Things We Keep: An A-Z of Ordinary Objects, so today's post will include something that relates to both Easter and my theme. Also, light on pictures heavy on words but that's how this blog sometimes plays out.

Let's start with my Easter bunny who is more than 50 years old...

Many years ago my mom did ceramics and she made each one of us four kids a rabbit of our own. My brother's looked a lot like Peter Rabbit with his little green coat, and my older sister's was a smaller bunny that broke somewhere along the way. My younger sister and I had rabbits that looked alike except for the painting. Mine was gray and white and hers was black and white. 

This bunny has been pulled out every Easter for a lot of years now. It's sweet, and makes me think of my mama and Easter Sundays growing up. New dresses and spring coats, my family around the dining room table eating my moms delicious baked ham on the good china. 

I promise you behind that door there are four ceramic Easter bunnies sitting in a dining room ready for Sunday dinner after church. 

Where were we? Oh yeah, 2026. Lots of years and miles from that front door. 

We had a nice low key Easter weekend here. Friday night hubs and I watched the three local grands while their parents had a night out. It's all fun and games until you do an accidental awkward triple somersault while playing a harmless game of tag with the kids. Just ask hubs-ha! 

I brought them each a little bag with a sweet treat, a little toy, and pjs for the boys and a dress and shorts outfit for little miss. Not buying ALL the pretty clothes for my grandgirls is an act of will. 

Saturday morning I boiled eggs so I could make deviled eggs Sunday morning to take to my daughter's house for Easter dinner. Then, because it was a drizzly morning, hubs went with me to the store. He needed some sort of fussy battery and I needed last minute ingredients for my Sunday salad. 

We watched some of the British police series we've been enjoying (Death In Paradise) and I made an Easter chex mix (using pastel M & M's) and spent some time trying to get ahead with some of the letter posts coming up in the A-Z. I'd really love to be two ahead, but will settle for one. Or even just not scrambling on the day would be okay too. 

Saturday night I made chicken piccata (I love Ina's recipe) and we watched basketball. I got bored and ended up going to bed before the Michigan game ended. While I was all in on the brackets I don't have even the smallest connection to the two teams that made the finals. 

Sunday we had a wonderful church service with a hopeful message, beautiful music, and everyone in their Easter finery. You'll have to take my word for that last bit. Hubs and I didn't take a single picture of the two of us, and while I have cute pics of the kids I try not to share them here. The struggle is real though. 

After church we enjoyed a delicious lunch at daughter1's house with the grands, my daughter's in-laws, and her sister-in-law, brother-in-law and their super precious nine month old baby girl.  My baby girl made the most scrumptious lemon blueberry cake with a lemon buttercream and sugared blueberries on top, and I am already looking for a reason to make this recipe myself. 

Daughter2 and her hubs celebrated the day with their own church family in TN, but had a similar meal to ours because some traditions are worth keeping. 

We came home about five, the same time the sun decided to shine, and took a late Sunday nap which is also an Easter tradition. Or possibly an every Sunday tradition? We skipped dinner because we were both still full and watched a movie we somehow missed when it came out. 

It's called The Ark in some places and Noah's Ark in other places. We watched it on Prime and this one is the 2015 BBC television movie with David Threlfall and Joanne Whalley.  There have been a lot of film versions made of Noah's Ark and they don't get great reviews, mostly because the filmmakers change the story as it's told in the Bible. 

That's true in this case too, so you have to view it as a movie and not a documentary. They've taken a lot of liberties with the story, the timeline and who is actually on the Ark most of all, but as a movie it was engaging. If you've never read the first book of the Bible-Genesis,  check it out to hear the real deal. 

I've got my blood work this morning so no coffee which is not the way I like to begin the week, but I'll manage. 

Hope your weekend was filled with lots of joyful moments too. Happy Monday everyone!