We woke up this morning and shouted, "He is risen!" Ellie, who didn't know the proper response, shouted back, "Yea!" (We thought that was actually pretty appropriate.)
We slipped and slid our way to the early service at church and worshipped together as a family, like usual. Then we all went downstairs and served in children's ministry for the next two services. It was pretty empty - not nearly the crowd we were expecting - so I think that most people wanted to worship as a family too. I'll be interested to hear how many attenders we had upstairs. The last service had so few kids that I pulled the "pregnancy card" and we left early, leaving the poor other volunteers working.
We drove home and watched March Madness as we worked together to finish a beautiful fruit tart to bring to Isaac's grandparents' house for Easter. As we finished, unfortunately, Ellie began to complain that she was cold and couldn't get warm. I took her temperature, and sure enough, she had a fever. (This makes her birthday last year, Thanksgiving, AND Easter, by the way.) So we couldn't infect Nana and Papa, so Ellie and I had to stay home, and we sent Isaac to see his family and eat nummy ham with the beautiful fruit tart.
Things weren't all bad, though, because my parents didn't have any Easter plans and they don't worry about getting sick. So Ellie and I crashed their Easter, and they made ham and Nancy' potatoes. I was so happy I didn't miss out. Plus, being with Grandma and Grandpa gives Ellie much more energy. She was happier there than she would have been at home.
When we got back home after dinner, Isaac had taken his little brother and sister (ages 14 and 17) home with him to spend the night and morning. Isaac and Nathaniel took our sick little girl outside to play in the snow, because why mope inside when you have a fever, right?
All in all, it was a good Easter, but how can Easter be anything but good when we think of what really happened today?
3 comments:
"Christ is Risen Indeed!" i didn't get the chance to say to anyone so i thought i would here. glad that she wasn't so down under she could enjoy other things! really starting to miss all of my friends. evidently my "alone time limit" is only 4 days.
Isn't it great that grandparents usually don't care if they are exposed to germs or not?! I'm glad you were able to have Easter with family despite Ellie being sick. I was thankful for the exact same thing yesterday! Oh...we also took Allie outside to play in the snow even though she had a fever too!
I love this blogging world and keeping in touch with others...I am so glad to hear that you are pregnant and will have you in my thoughts.
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