Sunday
the 27th. Jackson woke up, looked at me, then yelled "It's Easter! You
forgot, but I remembered!!" He ran down the steps and looked outside to
check on the carrots he left out the night before. Jackson was very
excited to see that the Easter Bunny had eaten almost all of them. He was
so excited that he didn't notice the full Easter baskets next to them.
After Benjamin woke up, we brought his baskets inside and started going through
them. The boys loved eating candy before breakfast. Once Jackson saw
that the Easter Bunny had hid eggs all over Grandma Sue's yard, we rushed
outside to start finding them. Ben's favorite egg had three pacifiers in
it. Ben calls them poohs, not sure why or when that started, but he
currently loves them very much. He spent the remainder of the morning
trying to carry five of them at once while looking for candy. When Ben
finds candy, like a chocolate egg, he puts the entire thing in his mouth,
wrapper and all. Not surprisingly, he gets pretty mad when you pull it
back out. Jackson found eggs with money, candy, and cars in them. He
told me the best things the Eater Bunny brought him were the Battle Nexus
Michelangelo and the Dinosaur Eggs (they fizz and bubble while dissolving in
warm water to reveal a dino inside). Miss Bertha dropped by later in the
morning, as did Grandma Sue's current neighbor Nancy and her old neighbor, Mrs.
Wall. Later in the evening, after everyone ate an Easter lunch at Sue's
house, I drove back to Mount Airy in the rain and fog on empty roads with only
the occasional lights of the passing trains to look at. Two years ago when
Amy was eight months pregnant with Ben and Jackson was two, we made a nine hour
trip home on jammed interstates. I think everyone in the van was crying by
the time we got home that night. I then vowed to never take the major
interstates on holidays again. In keeping with that, I drove through
Virginia on 460, 360, and 58. That route took me through Danville, so I
made a quick visit to our old friends Stanley and Mary Beth Clement. I
also made a stop in Claudville to take my mom the home-made cinnamon raisin
bread Miss Bertha made for her. Amy and the kids once again stayed in
Colonial Heights to help Sue with her recovery. Sue is doing much better
though and is now able to move around much of the house unassisted.
Click here to go to the Easter page.