Sunday, April 20 (Easter)

Happy Easter! We got an early start with 8:00 Mass at St. Rita's. I was the only person wearing a mask in the church, but I absolutely cannot get sick this week and derail my final chemo. So be it. We took some pictures outside the church afterward.

Back home, we gave the girls their Easter baskets: candy, mini Squishmallow figurines, an Easter Unicorno, a spring Miniverse blind box, a Coco Wye coloring book and pattern-drawing book, Uno No Mercy and Dutch Blitz, a pastel Trader Joe's tote, and a set of tiny Easter chicks (like the Target birds but babies in an egg carton). All very cute and well-received.

Then Andrew and I went outside to hide eggs for the egg hunt. This was a risk. Some of you longtime readers will remember the infamous Slug Easter of 2018. We haven't hidden eggs outside in Connellsville since then. But the grass was dry this morning, and we decided to tempt fate. (Spoiler alert: there were no slugs.) The girls may be teenagers, but they were still excited about an egg hunt; they'd asked if there would be one this year, or if they were too old, and I--who spent the past month searching for the perfect tiny things to put in their eggs--assured them that an egg hunt would take place as usual. 

Once they found all their eggs, they went back inside to open them. The tiny things this year were tiny resin animals of various types, all glow in the dark. They spent some time setting them up and arranging them, of course. 

Then all of us played two rounds of Uno No Mercy (lots of fun) and then had dinner. Mom made a roast chicken, roasted veggies, and stuffing; Andrew made a small ham. For dessert we had Andrew's annual Peeps carrot cake. 

Then it was time to pack up and head home. It was a perfect spring day and a lovely Easter.