Easter.......Drama Anyone?

I thought about saying that things like this only happen at our house but I have a sneaking suspicion that there just might be a few families out there -like ours- that are blessed with a bit more "drama" on a daily basis.  So this is the story of the Pastoor family Easter.....with a bit more drama, of course....

(Warning...this is a bit long)

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We decided to dye our Easter eggs on Saturday afternoon.  We broke down and bought two different packages of "fun" egg dying kits.  Let me just tell you that I know for a fact that last year I told myself I wouldn't buy one of those ever again.....why did I not listen to myself, I ask??  Anyway...we followed the directions and the kids started dipping their eggs.  I'm pretty sure I saw looks of disappointment and frustration ALL the way around the table!  The dye didn't seem to want to stay on the eggs and one of the packages we bought had a foil paper that you were supposed to be able to rub on the egg after dying it and it would leave bits of shininess all over it.  Um...not so much.  We did everything we could think of to try and get the foil paper to leave SOMETHING on an egg.  We were probably successful about 10% of the time.  Next year I'm going back to the "dark ages" and using plain ol food coloring and white vinegar.

Easter morning......happy smiling faces.....

Haylie and Hana with their Easter baskets

Family photos taken before heading to Easter service

   

Hana with the Lily we ordered in her name at church.  The adoption ministry held a flower sale where you could order a flower in "Memory Of" or "In Celebration Of" someone.  We ordered flowers in "Celebration Of"  Hana because we are so happy that she came to join our family last December and we ordered one in anticipation of our baby Amayah coming to join our family this year!  We also ordered one in "Memory Of" our sweet baby Joshua who would have been 20 years old this year.

The gang right before the big Easter egg hunt.....Lillie hiding her face  =)

  

Nathaniel showing that he found a REAL egg that one of our chickens had laid outside somewhere!  Jake trying to count his eggs.....look at that concentration!

    

Haylie holding Lillie securely because she would love to go on a Easter "animal eating" hunt!  Chloe and Hana searching for eggs.

Haylie's birthday ducklings...getting so big!

     

Some of our animals that were watching the Easter egg hunt!

So, you should now have a pretty good idea at how our Easter day went from all of these lovely pictures.....cue the romantic-ish music and think of being swooped back to the "perfect" 1950's or into a scene from Better Homes and Gardens......well, you understand what I'm trying to get at.  Imagine yourself in that "perfect day" scenario and then.....RIP yourself right out of it because that's not how our day went at all!!  Well....at least part of it didn't....

The morning seemed to go just fine....everybody up and happy to be celebrating Easter.....enjoying Easter baskets and goodies and toys and anticipating church services and coming home to a nice meal and an Easter egg hunt!  Well, someone who shall remain nameless (cough cough...Mom) had a touch of PMS and so "this person" was tending to be a little over emotional, but she was, of course, trying really hard to keep it all under control....EXCEPT.....

Church services were quite an emotional experience so "this person" was already worn out from that and then she came home to find that, somehow, the potatoes that were in the slow cooker had been cooking for the last two hours on a higher temp than they should have been so.....yep....you guessed it, the house was smellin pretty bad and the potatoes were a bit burnt...to say the least.  And as if that weren't enough to send this person into a mental breakdown in the "condition" that she had no choice to be in----(thought I'd just throw that part in there to remind everyone how uncontrollable this womanly disease is)....

"This person" hears one of her children sobbing and moaning from the basement and immediately she knows what has taken place.  She runs down the stairs frantically and discovers her child in pure agony over the sight of his brand new Teddy Bear hamster that was just given to him (late b-day present) the day before (he hadn't even owned him for 24 hours yet).

The crime scene was grim.  Cage was knocked over and laying on its side.  Poor hamster laying next to it looking soggy like something had been licking it like it was a hamster-sicle.  The poor thing had no where to go to escape the wrath of its perpetrator.  Immediately "this person" knows just who is to blame for this heart wrenching and mood destroying catastrophe... on Easter no less!  How dare they ruin Easter for our family!!  Justice will be served!!  This person stomps back up the stairs in grief and (now) anger and tells her daughter that her dog just killed her brother's new love.  The poor boy just lost his pet rat recently and was still in mourning over that and now he had to endure THIS!  I don't know who was in a worse state--the boy...... or the one with PMS.....you decide.....

So now we not only have "boy" crying and "PMS person" wanting to cry and VERY angry......we have added "dog owner" to the traumatic turn of events!  "Dog owner" is now in her bedroom with "dog" and  she is wailing because she knows that her "dog" is already in enough trouble with family members on a continual basis so she is in fear of "dog's" life.  "PMS" woman has no outlet for all the anger she is experiencing so she decides to show "dog" how much she hates her at the moment...which in turn makes "dog owner" even more upset!  "PMS" woman heads out to the livingroom and sees son #2 crying hysterically.  She demands to know who has died now!!  Boy can't answer---most likely due to the grief he is experiencing and also from sheer terror ....must have been scared of "PMS" woman???  Who knows??  Anyway.....no one else has died, he's just experience the trauma of the moment.

"PMS" woman walks into the sunporch and looks down to find an un-identifiable piece of "the victim"....ARG!!!  She glares at the cat sleeping peacefully in the chair in the sunshine....how dare she lay there so happily when the rest of the house was in an uproar!  How smug of her!  Humph!  "PMS" woman felt like kicking the cat too, but she was able to refrain.  

"PMS" woman decides that probably the best thing for her to do would be to go to her bedroom and fold some clothes to try to calm down and regain her composure.  Ten minutes into it she stops dead in her tracks!  Oh my word....she says.  It wasn't "the dog"!!!  It was the SMUG one that was happily laying in the sunshine out on the sunporch!  That's why a piece of the victim was found so far from the crime scene and so close to "you know who"!!!  "PMS" woman runs to tell "dog owner" and the rest of the family!  "Dog owner" is SO relieved because "dog" now has a stay of execution...however short it may be.  Everyone else is glad that the drama is finally winding down and that it is almost time to eat dinner!  

The rest of the day is pretty uneventful....thankfully....I'm not sure how much more we could have handled.  You will be glad to know that the one hamster was replaced by not one--but two, yes two--gerbils.  We now have a more secure cage and kids that are now more aware of the predators that are lurking around, just waiting for a good meal!

Disclaimer:  No animals were hurt during the moments of this day......well, except for the poor TB hamster, of course.  And, I'm pretty sure that the good memories of the day far out weighed the bad, thank you Jesus for 24 hours in a day! 

Congratulations if you made it this far!!

Hoping your Easter was NOT filled with as much drama as ours was....

Wendy