So what if im just a big kid
Easter is right around the corner and i find myself thinking of it quite often
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs for instance my family.
the night before all the older kids would all get together and there was a lot of us we would die/ decorate eggs bake cookies and tell stories for the years that had past and the parents would all be standing around telling us not to spill the die and to save some cookies for tomorrow we would stay up real late and the horrid smell of vinegar (vinegar water and either food die or those lil tabs of color was what we used to color the eggs) would over ride the house. the next day the whole family OK so not the whole family just the kids would go to church then after we would rush home then everyone one would meet at our house around 2 or 3 we would play games in the back yard and when the time was just right my Mom would call everyone in and the adults would go out and hide Easter eggs for us to find the made some really easy of the younger kids and us older kids new not to get the easy ones and some really hard ones that even if we knew where they were we had know clue as to how to get them down ... one year my grandfather stuck one in the drain gutter on top of the house. how he got it there we never found out my guess is he through it and that were they landed Russ had to get a latter to get it down ... then once all the eggs were found we would make deviled eggs out of them we always had Ham and potato salad and pink stuff mashed potatoes it was good times...
This will be the first year I will be away from all the Easter fun this will be the first time I have not colored eggs and baked cookies this will be Rj's first year without Auntie Kat but IM sure he wont know the difference. This is the one day I can say never got spoiled I can look at this one holiday and say that is exactly how I want to do it when I have a family of my own. I know IM still just a big kid hell last year patty had me and Easter basket filled with good stuff the funny thing is I didn't know she was going to do that and I got her one... I sat hers by her bed and she sat mine out side my door. I guess we are just kind of dorky like that... I got Jason an Easter basket two year ago when we lived in Lenexa it was cute. I do feel bad that I won't be abel to get anything this year for Jason or anyone.
I think IM OK not being there this year the one thing I have learned is that even if IM not there they do the same things they always have done.
I used to think that if I went there they wouldn't do it or it would get messed up but I know now that IM am just a piece of the puzzle not the board holding it together. And that is good it take a lot of pressure off me and I do feel better knowing that when something goes wrong and IM not there it still gets taken care of it doesn't always have to be ME.
and see when i was really young we would spend Easter at the lake and Mom and dad would hide the eggs in the woods and everyone would get drunk and sit around the fire and sing and anyone else that was camping would come over with there kids my dad would make BBQ chicken with his own home made BBQ sauce and the kids would run around like crazy then we would all go down and swim but the water was always really cold even though it was in the mid 80s we would take the boat out and dad would pack a cooler i would get a DP josh would get and orange soda and Amy i don't remember what she would take then the rest would be filled with Bush Beer.... we would ski and tube then when dad was ready to pass out we would go back to the camp ground and play while he would sleep it off then he would get up and we would do it all over again. IT was a blast.
I know some people say I live in the past and that I shouldn't. These are great memories I have from the past all the way up to last year. And yes maybe this is me living in the past or is it me just reminiscing of time that have gone bye Either way I know what Easter means to me and I know all the happy thought and warm feelings that I link with Easter ....
I know IM just a big kid what's so wrong with that........................
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs for instance my family.
the night before all the older kids would all get together and there was a lot of us we would die/ decorate eggs bake cookies and tell stories for the years that had past and the parents would all be standing around telling us not to spill the die and to save some cookies for tomorrow we would stay up real late and the horrid smell of vinegar (vinegar water and either food die or those lil tabs of color was what we used to color the eggs) would over ride the house. the next day the whole family OK so not the whole family just the kids would go to church then after we would rush home then everyone one would meet at our house around 2 or 3 we would play games in the back yard and when the time was just right my Mom would call everyone in and the adults would go out and hide Easter eggs for us to find the made some really easy of the younger kids and us older kids new not to get the easy ones and some really hard ones that even if we knew where they were we had know clue as to how to get them down ... one year my grandfather stuck one in the drain gutter on top of the house. how he got it there we never found out my guess is he through it and that were they landed Russ had to get a latter to get it down ... then once all the eggs were found we would make deviled eggs out of them we always had Ham and potato salad and pink stuff mashed potatoes it was good times...
This will be the first year I will be away from all the Easter fun this will be the first time I have not colored eggs and baked cookies this will be Rj's first year without Auntie Kat but IM sure he wont know the difference. This is the one day I can say never got spoiled I can look at this one holiday and say that is exactly how I want to do it when I have a family of my own. I know IM still just a big kid hell last year patty had me and Easter basket filled with good stuff the funny thing is I didn't know she was going to do that and I got her one... I sat hers by her bed and she sat mine out side my door. I guess we are just kind of dorky like that... I got Jason an Easter basket two year ago when we lived in Lenexa it was cute. I do feel bad that I won't be abel to get anything this year for Jason or anyone.
I think IM OK not being there this year the one thing I have learned is that even if IM not there they do the same things they always have done.
I used to think that if I went there they wouldn't do it or it would get messed up but I know now that IM am just a piece of the puzzle not the board holding it together. And that is good it take a lot of pressure off me and I do feel better knowing that when something goes wrong and IM not there it still gets taken care of it doesn't always have to be ME.
and see when i was really young we would spend Easter at the lake and Mom and dad would hide the eggs in the woods and everyone would get drunk and sit around the fire and sing and anyone else that was camping would come over with there kids my dad would make BBQ chicken with his own home made BBQ sauce and the kids would run around like crazy then we would all go down and swim but the water was always really cold even though it was in the mid 80s we would take the boat out and dad would pack a cooler i would get a DP josh would get and orange soda and Amy i don't remember what she would take then the rest would be filled with Bush Beer.... we would ski and tube then when dad was ready to pass out we would go back to the camp ground and play while he would sleep it off then he would get up and we would do it all over again. IT was a blast.
I know some people say I live in the past and that I shouldn't. These are great memories I have from the past all the way up to last year. And yes maybe this is me living in the past or is it me just reminiscing of time that have gone bye Either way I know what Easter means to me and I know all the happy thought and warm feelings that I link with Easter ....
I know IM just a big kid what's so wrong with that........................