my version of the 3 crosses...
most of you know I do not sleep all night...
and if I do, I am a very early riser...
so this morning...
I thought this looked so pretty sitting in the dark, alone...
thinking about the meaning of the day...
just what it means to overcome...
hell, death and the grave...
DH got me this little angel for Easter...
and she stands in the shadow of the cross...
as I sat at the table...
looking at a bag of sugar marshmallow eggs...
I thought of how fun it used to be on Easter morning when the kids were small...
the hiding of the eggs, the baskets, the excitement of the morning...
so I grabbed that bag and began...
why not?
they might be 26 and 31, but hey, they're still my kids...
and I hid the whole bag...
Doug came pretty early...
got me and Craig both up...
and Doug grinned when he saw the eggs and Craig grabbed a bowl and started finding them...
it began the day in a good mood...
then we went out for a walk...
Easter pansies from DH...
and Doug looked at the blooms...
and we all talked about plans for the summer...
and I took photos as we went...
it is just amazing...
at all the wonderful colors out there...
we came back in and started working on dinner...
and we all did something, working together....
we ate until we were stuffed and a couple of us took another walk...
the kids crashed in the living room...
and later on, DH and I decided to nap...
because the snoring from the living room was in stereo...
Craiger playing the Easter Bunny...
I told him he needed ears...
when DH and I were walking, on the way back...
we saw our neighbor...
he was looking at the rose bush...
I knew instantly what was happening...
he was thinking of her...
I could see the sadness in the slumping of his shoulders...
his head slightly bent...
this rose bush is 7-8 years old...
and a few of the buds opened today...
he planted this rose bush just outside the living room window for his wife...
so she could see it from inside...
Sue died 6-7 years ago...
she didn't get to see it this big, with so many blooms...
he was thinking of her...
how appropriate that it would bloom this morning...
his eyes were moist and I knew he was having a hard moment...
so we talked a spell...
I said holidays are the worst, aren't they?
they sure are, was his reply...
if you had your family around you, your spouse...
you were blessed today...
