Easter

We planted the wheat grass the weekend before. I didn't think it was going to make it. The boys loved filling up the buckets with dirt and checking them everyday for sprouts. They even liked blowing hte yoke out of the eggs (I didn't expect that) which we hid inside. We used quail eggs. You know, because they're cheaper than white eggs around here. What I really want to know is - what laid the big black ones I see at the market? We did not use those.

Saturday was Heiferlumpa. Great name, ya? My two favorite Sg friends put together an Easter brunch, egg hunt and also raised money for heifer.org.

Can you tell how excited Noah was? He ran around with half his candy in his mouth and the other half melting in his basket. We forgot the chocolates would be so melty - this being the boys' first egg hunt not in the snow.

Little Gage would pick up one egg, plop himself down, open the egg, eat the sweets and then get back up to find the next one.

Easter Sunday the boys found their hidden baskets, we ate our Hootenanny for breakfast, and had a wonderful day at church. Then a BBQ dinner with friends, absolutely lovely.

Some of our traditions needed tweaking - chicken and shrimp satay for dinner instead of ham and potatoes (no potatoe casserole ingredients to be found, and do you know how much a ham costs?!), strawberry gummies and chocolate pocky in the baskets instead of peanut butter cups or robin eggs (again, do you know how much imported Easter candy costs?!) I did however buy a tiny tiny bag of Cadbury mini eggs for a fortune and enjoyed every. single. bite. And I was so grateful my generous friend had brought 2 grocery bags full of plastic eggs with her to Singapore. Because those are nowhere to be seen.

Update: 5 days after Easter I found a bag of 6 small plastic eggs for $6.50. On clearance.

But our most important traditions needed no tweaking. All week we sang, read, watched, colored, and talked about the resurrection of Christ and how that changes our lives. The boys love our collection of pieces that represent the story and wanted to do it again and again. And that is what I hope they'll remember about Easter.