The Easter Bunny and Lee!

I am a BIG BELIEVER in tradition! However, since I became a MOM...I realized that I also need to be a BIG BELIEVER in Plan B. Things don't always go as planned, and so whether you like it or not, there better be a Plan B in your hip pocket. This week was one of those, Plan B type of weeks.
For instance, the Easter Bunny has always stopped by our house on Friday Nights ( by our request ). We thought it would be easier to teach the kids between Spring/ Easter Bunny and the real meaning of Easter, if we separated them by a day. It has worked quite well for all these years, however...when you have a tradition like that, you have to stay on top of it or...before you know it, it is Friday night already. I don't believe that the Easter Bunny has ever been late coming to our home in some 27 years, but he didn't make it last night!
We were surprised, but soon realized that this has been an unusually cold and wet Spring and so...he probably was sick. I can sure understand how hard that would be to deliver all those baskets, when you don't feel too well! Lucky for us, by today...we had word that he has finally visited all of our kids and so we are grateful, that even though it was a day or so late...we were able to keep our tradition!

Today is also Lee's 18th birthday. We got to celebrate it with all the kids together (when we were in Idaho). Then today we had Amy, John and the girls and then some friends and neighbors over to celebrate with Lee. He has turned out to be an incredible young man, and how blessed we feel to have him in our family. He will graduate in a month or so and before we know it, he will be off to college...wow, I am just not ready for that yet! I think one of the greatest joys of a Mom, is to see the love that the kids have for one another. Now when they were little, there were days that I thought they would kill each other but... that was just on hard days. It has been enjoyable to see how they connect now that they are all young adults. They are each other's friend, and that is what I prayed for...for years.

So Happy Birthday Lee, and thanks Easter Bunny for keeping our tradition... of coming before Easter Sunday!

 

"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."  ~Proverb

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."  ~Anne Bradstreet

Easter Bunny comes tonight!

Today was my 4th Physical Therapy for my knees. It was pretty tough but, I know it probably has to be to be able to get my knees strong as they need to be. I will have to be doing some of the exercises on my own at home on the days that I don't have PT. Came home and needed to take a nap. I am trying to go a day without a nap, but for some reason I can't. It has been almost a year since I finished my radiation, and yet the fatigue still is an issue. I wonder if other survivors took this long to recover?

Well it is late and in our home the Easter Bunny comes tonight...why? Well, when the kids were little we didn't want to get the true meaning of Easter, confused with the Easter Bunny, so... we had him come on Friday night and then we did the Easter Baskets and Egg Hunts on Saturday. Then we had all day Sunday to celebrate Easter. Now that might not work for many of you, but it has for us, so I need to head to bed and wait for the Easter Bunny!

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."   ~ Christina Rossetti