Day 95: Easter 2023

 We've been home less than 48 hours and it's already a major holiday. 

Well major-ish. 

Luckily, I had planned for Easter well before we left for Hawaii, and since the kids are older, I don't need to stuff 483 eggs with candy. 

But that doesn't mean I didn't make it fun. 

Last night, I built their baskets (fun little Big Hero 6 figures, Halo guys, a new watch for Calen, a knife for Cam, and new outfits for their little Disney guys, a board game for each) and hid them. Then I stuffed 20 eggs with money (most had .50 or a dollar, two had two dollars, one had $5) and hid them amongst the ground floor of the house. 

And that was it! Each boy was allowed to find 10 eggs each and keep them, plus find their basket. It took almost 25 minutes for them to find all the eggs and their baskets. 

I made lunch/dinner early, since it is Sunday after all and we usually have a snack board and game night for dinner. This was easy, since I'm still in vacation mode and not up for cooking: Premade Safeway sub sandwiches, devilled eggs, potato salad (storebought), meatballs, cucumbers, jelly beans and chocolate eggs. 

Easy. 

Brad and Calen took some time learning how to use Calen's new drawing pad that he got for his birthday (Brad has the same one) and Cam went into the garage to play with a friend for a low key afternoon. Then they all came back together and we did confetti eggs together on the living room floor (instead of outside on the porch, where it was 8 degrees and blowing wind). 

And since it's Sunday after all and that means a snack board and board games, we left out the snack board all day and played a new game they got today ("Poetry for Neanderthals"), a hilarious game where you have to describe a word using one syllable words only (and if you don't, you get beat by an inflatable cave man club). 

Cam is at the ready to strike

Although at first I feel like I was throwing together Easter at the last second, it really turned out to be great Easter. 

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