So you wanna know how we spend Easter Sunday when the husband is gone and no family live near??? Dumpster Diving of course! More to come on that in a minute. The kids started the day with the obligatory Egg Hunt...as you can see below as they jaunt through the garden baskets in hand in 38 degree weather. I am pet-sitting at someone's house this weekend, so in order to get there in time for the morning routine I had to wake them up at 6:45. I told them "on your feet! be dressed, pottied, teeth brushed, at the back door with baskets in hand in 10 minutes!" I have never seen them move so fast. Hmmm, even Finnegan didn't even ask me to button pants, wipe his butt for him, find his shirt, etc, etc! There was candy involved, so no intervention was needed from me - awesome start to the day! And lucky for me, they did indeed return with baskets full of eggs with candy inside! (lucky since the thought occurred to me while I was finding my way through the dark with a flashlight hiding eggs last night that there was probably several "wild things" watching me and waiting to come snatch them!)
Okay, so I'm done with the whole "you're doing an egg hunt for them, aren't you?!" Check that off my list of things that proper moms do for their kids. What to do next? I don't really want to do the park thing since I really have a lot of work to do in my garden and don't want to deal with crowds of people at the playground. Let's go for a DRIVE...so I took the kids to a very new and affluent neighborhood (read no trees, foreclosed homes, sale signs everywhere) and ... what do we have here? On the curb of a house with a foreclosed sign on it sat 2 very large crate-type wooden boxes. They scream "take me, don't let us go to the landfill!" So I parked the Outback, slid the front seat back until Finn's legs were jammed up in his chin, and proceeded to lift one into the front seat, one in the way back. These babies weighed about 80 lbs apiece, and Lochlann just kept repeating "maybe you should wait for daddy..."
So when we got home, I rolled them into the back yard and gave the kids paint and brushes and told them to have at 'em. They had a blast and this is what I got - these may be perfect for my new colonnade apple trees!
I also forgot to mention Charlie's project completed right before he left for AZ. We had a ton of old fence boards from the old fence that I really wanted recycled into SOMETHING. He drilled holes in them and slipped them all onto rebar pounded into the ground. Presto, I have a 2 bay compost bin that is aerated and looks a heck of a lot better than my 2 plastic black ones (which I will still use, but hide behind the shed!).
The final project only took a half hour and is pretty cute. We dug out an old wheelbarrow that was destined for the dump due to the huge gashes in the bottom of it - we then spraypainted it (all we had of course was aircraft gray, courtesy of my Navy jet-mech husband) and filled it with compost, a plant, some old pots we intend to put herbs in, and a $1 sign from Target I had laying around. Charlie is going to laugh when he gets home and sees this one because I kept rescuing that wheelbarrow from his "to the dump" pile. Every time he would say "what are you going to do with THAT?". (The plant we put in looks pretty bad, it was planted in the shade the other day and it obviously needs to be in the sun - I hope it recovers). I must admit after all this activity I was eyeing our canoe and thinking it might look good with a couple of rows of corn in it...no, I better draw the line on this one before I turn into "the crazy lady"...
I won't win any mother of the year awards for their diets today (see menu below!), and I conned them big time by giving them paint that kept them busy ALL DAY :), but I think they had fun and I got alot of work done!
Here's the crap that was consumed today at my house:
Breakfast: Candy
Snack : English Muffin & Scrambled Egg (ok, that wasn't bad)
Lunch: Plain Cheeseburger from McD's (ugh!)
Snack: More Candy
Dinner: Quesadilla and pretzels...more candy
Before you think I am horrible, I will say that is a definite deviation from what is normally served around here, and those who know me won't believe it, but my floors are even dirty today...REALLY DIRTY! I don't even care...I can go back to being OCD mom tomorrow...
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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