A) The general amount of exuberance in our house compared to the general lack of sleep: in relative chronological order, here's the things we did starting at 7pm Saturday-- 1) went to a 3-hr Easter Vigil, which was completely worth it; 2) had a crazy-feeling party to celebrate after; 3) went to sleep; 4) woke up at 5:15am for a sunrise service; 4b) had a party-feeling breakfast afterwards; 4c) had our family pictures taken; 5) went to 11am Easter service; 6) went to Easter dinner at my folks' afterwards, for which my favorite quote was when I asked my mom if it was really ok if we brought 11 people to the dinner, she said, "Of course, there's plenty of room-- evangelistically speaking," which meant that in actuality they had invited 29 people to a room that fits 20, and it totally worked!!, and 7) had Easter dessert at 7:30pm, because we hadn't seen the Tubbs' yet and it wouldn't be Easter without seeing them.... and we did it on, in age order, 5 hrs sleep; 8 hrs (that would be Rach); probably about 7 hrs (LJ didn't sleep much at all that night), and 9.5 hrs-- and then the boys refused to nap!! I was impressed at least. LJ pulled a 15-hr stretch without sleep (even for him, at 3, that's a long time )!
B) Elijah's sense of comedic timing-- I asked him after a bit of a contrarian exchange with his Great-Gramp Wilson (don't worry, they totally deserve each other... one was named after the other for a reason) if he would tell his Great-Gramp "that deep down, he missed his obstinant nature..." Without hesitation, he turned right to his Great-Gramp and bellowed, "I don't!"
C) Pipe organs and Trumpets on Easter !! !! !! (The trumpet may be my favorite instrument anyway, but a good fanfare... sound of Micah tearing up)
For what it sounded like, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkAKLRthHJM&feature=related
D) Coming home to this pretty picture on our deck after our 7am breakfast! The fabulous Ina Tubbs strikes again!! (We were pretty surprised, especially Elijah, who wandered around saying, "Mama!! I eat all the candy?? " for a good minute.
E) The graciousness of two men (and a couple supporting parents) in our church to give up their Easter service to watch our children (and approximately fifteen others) so that we didn't have to play "bounce the LJ" and "feed the Judah" all service. They were the only people with the safety training to be available and willing, and, in what really made me proud to be in a church with men like this, neither of them had kids near nursery age! Really, there wasn't anything in it for them at all. I won't spoil their reward by naming them for everyone, but an absolutely incredible act of service and not taken for granted by this grateful set of parents!!
Happy Easter Monday from our family!! (Honestly, this is the best picture of the whole set-- I swear!)
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