Easter Egg Dyeing 2017

Team Slap's 20th annual Easter Egg Dyeing took place this afternoon. While the kids finished up, Tracy and I walked to Cousins Subs to get everyone tuna subs for lunch.

Easter Pancakes at our Church

I expect this will be the last time one of the kids attends an event like this, since it's been years since any of them believed in the Easter Bunny or Santa. We're really just here to support the parish. Oh, and her friend lost a tooth mid meal.

Easter Wreaths

Lisa made these for my Mom, at her request. The pictures, honest and truly, don't do the work justice. My Mom was very grateful.

 That first picture is from Pinterest, and was Lisa's inspiration for this Easter morning. Alas, this is real life, not the web, and so the umbrellas, when opened, would not support the bounty. So the kids woke up to plain 'ole piles on the dining room table. LOL #PinterestFail

A Special Easter Treat

Junie gave up takis - a ghastly Mexican hot Cheeto - for Lent. And while I was happy to see them go, it was a struggle for her. So she got a small pack for Easter and was ecstatic (but knew I'd bought them this morning, because she'd snuck a peek at her gifts overnight).

Easter Dinner at Denny's

Easter dinner! (Minus LuLu, who wasn't feeling well. Legit ill,  not the "my kid is being a jerk so I wouldn't let them come but I'll tell people they're sick so they don't judge me" ill. LOL)

7 hours of sleep - minus one interruption for a Junie fit - ???? Truly a Easter miracle!

My Thoughts: The "Pagan" Nature of Easter

Ack, usually this stuff only pops up on Facebook around Christmas, but I just saw a meme about how Easter (and the eggs, etc) is just a "pagan" holiday. Quoting my comment: 

I've pointed this out for twenty years, and it never seems to sink in for people, but here goes: Duh, and who cares? Of course, when Christianity moved into new areas it was easier to incorporate the existing celebration practices into the new religion. Symbols are just that, representations of ideas, and the church created new "ideas" to affix to the traditional practices. It made the transition easier. Christmas is still the celebration of Christ's birth, Easter still the celebration of his Rebirth. Who gives a shit if wreaths originally celebrated X if they now clearly and definitely proclaim Y? A guy gives a ring to his ex wife. After a messy divorce, twenty years later he gives another engagement ring to the new love of his life. You're going to argue that ring is a mockery of his second wife because once upon a time it was a symbol of his adoration for a different woman? Hell no.

Not the Reactions we Expected

Sigh. Smiley is having a half hour hissy because Junie got a sketch book for Easter and he didn't. Nevermind that Lisa bought him a case for his DS that was worth more than Junie's entire basket. 

My family's emotional instability + Lisa's family's temper = quite the show.

Thanks YaYa  for sacrificing her sketch book to appease her brother. I'll replace yours, thanks for your giving spirit.

One fit stopped, enterJunie drama....

Now Junie's appeased, enter OJ protests..... Good thing parents aren't voted on, I think they'd impeach us.

- Lisa

Easter Egg Dyeing

 As we've done since at least 1998 (starting with our niece and nephew) #TeamSlap dyed Easter Eggs on Good Friday. We do it from noon to three, although as the kids have gotten older it takes less and less time. We don't allow electronics or play during the hours Christ was on the cross, so this is a convenient way to hold their attention. My Godson TJ attended this year, and all the kids seemed to have fun, normal squabbles aside. Note the "Daddy Trump" egg YaYa made, drawing the scorn of the rabidly liberal Junie LOL