Settle in, it’s gonna be a long one.
First up we have Saturday night. We go to the Easter Vigil mass, which begins late – about 8:30 or 9 depending on the date. This year it started at 9pm. It goes late, nearly to midnight, but it’s my favorite mass of the year. That’s not the point, though. For the first time in a year (last Easter Vigil, as a matter of fact) we had a babysitter. Since August, Déla and Ciárán were coming with us, the sitter would just be watching Xavier. And he would be asleep. Of course his brothers decided to draw a picture and leave it at the bottom of the stairs in case he did happen to wake up before we got home
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Ciárán said the whole time how he wasn’t tired. An hour into it of course he’s out. He would wake up and fall asleep off and on for the rest of the mass, which is fine and to be expected. But I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to snap this picture.
Everything went well and Easter morning was full of sugar and egg hunts. And more sugar. Then a bit more sugar.
As it should be.
Everybody was crowding around their baskets, devouring as much as they could both before and after going out to the back yard to hunt for more.
Well, except Xavier. He took his basket to the front room to have by himself without (I assume) the possibility of having to share.
Of course they went out into the back yard and found even more candy.
And the Easter celebrations didn’t end there. The Easter Bunny (as is tradition) decorated a cake that we had left out. The day before we always bake a cake and in the morning it is covered in even more sugary goodness.
Later on in the week, as it was the kids’ vacation from school, we went to a park. On the play structure August wound up doing something silly to get himself sort of stuck. This is becoming a bit of a pattern on his part.
