Easter

No pictures from the Triduum, because we didn’t take any.  We did go to Tenebrae Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings.  Tenebrae was lovely.  The silences between Psalms were silent, which meant that Tess’s running commentary on Thursday morning (“What’s Fr. Daniel doing?  Is he walking?” etc…) was fairly audible.  However, Friday morning she talked mostly during the singing, which meant that her announcement, “I need to go poop!” was not heard by everyone.  So that was a bonus.  The older kids really enjoyed Tenebrae this year, and even Tess’s distraction didn’t prevent her from picking up some of the words to the Psalms.

I went to Mass Holy Thursday, and Michael went to the Good Friday evening service.  Michael also went to about 90 minutes of Tre Ore with Naomi and Simeon.  Simeon napped through part of that.  2/3 of the family also got haircuts on Good Friday:  Michael and I, Naomi and Sim.

We went to the Easter Vigil and the two oldest stayed awake this year.  It was truly lovely.  I’m thinking of trying to convince our liturgist to have Mass in the dark more often, because Tess pretty much sat and watched with silent, grave interest until she fell asleep during the homily. 

Of course, despite our efforts to encourage the kids to sleep in, Sim was up at 6:30 a.m., and when Michael told him to go back to bed, the resulting upset woke Naomi. 

Tess was so thrilled about her Easter dress (which she wore to the Vigil) that she put it on as soon as she woke up – even before calling us to come get her.  Easter morning ended up being quite relaxed, with a big breakfast and then a walk/bike ride/roller blade and stop at the playground. 

Easter morning we did eventually remember the camera. 

Each child got a new book in his or her Easter basket.  Hannah finished hers in about 3 hours. 

 

Yep.  Hannah’s reading.

The egg hunt was held at the local aunt and uncle’s house, and the weather was sunny and mild…rain had been predicted but didn’t appear.

Naomi put her Easter dress on for the gathering.  Hannah did not, but her dress matches Naomi’s.

Michael helped with the egg hiding and was proud of some of his placements. 

Sim wore his Easter shirt and pants, but didn’t go to the formality of the tie. 

Tess’s egg hunt was highly successful, and she had to look through each egg as soon as the hunt was over.  I sat next to her and kept the eggs she’d looked in separate from the ones she hadn’t, because her original strategy had been to just put the eggs back in the basket…a recipe for an unending egg check.

Following the big kids’ egg hunt we had the egg hunt trading.  Apparently this year jelly beans were the hot item, even more than the money that had been in some of the eggs. 

Michael also took off Easter Monday and spent most of the day putting up a fence…but I’ll do a separate post about that. 

Happy Easter, everyone!