***Also Note!  I have accomplished my first sewing project.  Learning how to sew at 26 is a grand accomplishment and I will no doubt go on and on about it in a later post!  This one is long enough!***

How was your Easter?  Mine was wonderful.  Mostly.

We started off with dyeing Easter Eggs for the very first time on Friday.  Scott had the day off of work so he helped us.  We didn’t do homemade egg coloring the way some of the brave adventurous people have done and lived to tell about on their blog.  Nope!  I went to the dollar store and bought some kind of kit.  (One day I will write a Grand Shakespearian Sonnet all about the dollar store)  Jewell had so much fun!  We dyed a dozen eggs and she wanted to keep going!  It was nice.  This was the first time we had ever done this in her lifetime so we will be doing it from now on. 

Friday night I was just running though some random journal on this website.  I got down on myself.  Feeling like everyone was a better homeschooler and Christian than I was.  All these people know all about the Lord and have such big families and know all these great songs and it just went on and on and on.  Then I thought to myself… I am new at this.  Twelve years of Catholic school gave me some Bible education.  I just started attending church regularly.  I like our church and our pastor and the people.  I am learning a lot.  I am trying to do my best with Jewell in monitoring what she wears and watches on TV and the influences in her life other things.  So we don’t read the Bible as a family…we’ll get there.  So we don’t do things the same as everyone else.  We do them our way and to the best of our abilities.  My child can pray and has mostly good manners.  (She is three!)  I am a work in progress…so for right now I am doing just fine. 

Saturday I spent all morning sick.  I missed Jewell’s ice skating lesson and slept until 2 p.m.  I haven’t done that since I had mono in the tenth grade.  In the evening I rallied and made it to church for Easter.  Our church rents a space so we have services on Saturday night.  This is both a good and a bad thing.  The space is way too small for how many members we have now but we don’t have enough capital to buy a church of our own.  The message was wonderful and inspiring.  I will write a post about that tomorrow.   At night we read from My First Bible for 2-4 year olds.  Jewell likes this book.  It’s her special thing.  Then we read an Easter lift-a-flaps book.  Those are always a hit too.

This morning we woke up and found Easter Eggs filled with hair ties, barrettes, and balloons.  In her Easter basket she had activity books, a prayer book, colored pencils, her own lipstick (chapstick), and stickers.  It is hard to fill and basket for a kid who doesn't eat candy.  Not that I am complaining I think it is GREAT.  He biggest junk food in gramcrackers.  Then we went to the in-laws for the day.  It was nice.  Jewell ate three servings of ham.  She NEVER eats that well.  I was happy.  It was a nice time with the family. 

~~The Mostly is added because it’s about 30 degrees and snowing outside!  I couldn’t wear my new (well resale but new to me) outfit.  I could have but I would have gotten sick.  REALLY SICK~~