Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Prep

Easter is a hard one to prep for here in Morningstarland.  With Jamie, Sasha, and Grammy all enjoying birthdays in April, it can be challenging to carve out time to celebrate Easter in both profound and fun ways.  But given that it's the most important, exciting, live-changing, eternity-changing day of the whole year, we do try our darndest to make Easter rock!

The boys have become less than enthusiastic about egg dyeing over the years.  But fortunately I still have two little artist who, equipped with egg grabbers and white crayons, are more than up for the challenge of a dozen or two blank canvases of the ovum variety.


I did have more help when it came to the plastic egg stuffing.  I assume their enthusiasm stemmed from the eternal-springing hope that there would be more candy than eggs to fill, leaving us with only one option - candy consumption! But bwa ha ha ha, Mommy wins again with a new bag of 100 empty plastic eggs!

Our last piece of Easter prep involved my brand new Easter gift - a 3Doodler! What's that you say?  This looks like a neato gadget that your husband really wanted to buy and so he figured he would not get into trouble if he bought said toy under the guise of "gift"?  For shame! I can't believe you'd even think such a (clearly truthful) thing!

Suspicious motivations notwithstanding, the 3Doodler actually is a lot of fun, which is saying something since I lack all ability to draw and/or sculpt.  Incidentally, I think these would be handy skills for one owning a 3Doodler.

On the upside, when your husband gives you a 3Doodler, it serves as an automatic "get out of cooking free" pass because, of course, you have to make Easter decorations with your new "gift" and that leaves no time for potato peeling or dish washing! Bwa ha ha ha.  Mommy wins again!

Despite the aforementioned complete lack of drawing and/or sculpting ability, I think our little Easter decorations turned out pretty well.  The mummy bunnies are only slightly sinister, the robin eggs only look a tiny bit like blue poo plops, and our mistakes worked exceedingly well into the wicker motif.

Easter prep? Check!

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sasha's 7th Birthday

Happy 7th birthday to the most energetic, most affectionate, craziest, most exuberant 7 year old on the planet!

Sasha Grace, this is the start of a whole new year of adventures and fun and learning and growth and we can't wait to share it with you!

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Ben's Reflections on Serving in Mexico

What I really liked was painting, serving with the kids - we shouldn't call it a job if we can have this much fun doing it!  I really liked seeing Narvick and some of the other kids again and being able to make some new ones.

I met Narvick last year when we were in the house that he's in.  This house made connections easier because most of them spoke pretty good English, but Narvick spoke some of the best English.  We met while doing crafts and we were having a great time and we became immediate friends and then when we left we looked at one of the sponsors list and saw him on there and just decided to sponsor him! We've been able to save up money and write letters to him for his birthday and other special occasions.

It was really cool seeing him again because he is such a nice kid.  He loves to share and he is just so awesome and he loved seeing us again and how could we resist not wanting to see him again?

One of the best things was just seeing those kids again and playing with them and doing crafts again and just having a great time.

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