This year I "uncharacteristically" became the [nice?] scrooge of Easter. I mean I'm usually all for complicating and specializing in holiday celebrations! Go big or go home is usually my mentality. It isn't that I was trying to make some sort of official point of rebellion against commercialism. I just wasn't gravitating toward it this year for some reason. I am pretty sure it was a bit of let down to my younger three children who have been pumped up at school and in every store they visit. I provided no coloring Easter eggs, no Easter candy, and no Easter basket. I told them I even asked the Easter bunny not to stop at our house this year! WHAT?! Lily thinks I am insane…she really just wanted his autograph. Only a new Easter Church outfit from me and a delicious Easter dinner provided by the famous Grandma Parker were the physical evidence that Easter came and went. (Oh, I forgot that we went to the Sugar City Easter Egg hunt with grocery sacks in hand so that JT, Olivia, and Lily could feel festive)
What happened on the inside though, I wonder? My children and husband were very supportive and "got" what I was doing without complaining or feeling left out of the Easter social circle so to speak. Just goes to show that once in a while – it is refreshing to be simple and stick with the basics. I hope their thoughts were able to be directed to the miraculous and awesome gift that our Heavenly Father and Brother Jesus Christ allow for us: the opportunity to be able to live with them and our loved ones forever! As for me: "I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me, confused at His grace that so fully he proffers me….I know that my Redeemer Lives! What comfort this sweet sentence gives."
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Comments:
Stephen said…
It really was nice to be focused on the real reason to celebrate.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:25:31 AM
Michelle said…
Good for you-it is easy to get caught up in the fluff! I love the dresses-super cute!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:06:47 PM