Hoppy Easter!

Soooooooooo we were supposed to get up and go to Easter service at one of our three churches here in our little town. We were told service started at 9:45.

When we woke up the clock said it was 10:30 ... well POO we missed the service! Oh, well, so we got up and we let the kids start looking for eggs and through their baskets. They each got toys and candy. I started making up the veggie tray. I decided it was about time I learn how to cut cauliflower correctly instead of just tearing it up like I usually do so I found THIS on the internet.

While I was cleaning the florets I dropped a peice of stem. My puppy Butterfly promplty ran up and ate it. I was taken aback! Dogs don't eat CAULIFLOWER!! But apparently mine do LOL!

I finished up the veggie tray.

I'ts not "beautiful" but pretty awesome! I started working on the devilled eggs when The Mr. got on his computer. I was worried we were cutting the time short since we had to be at brunch at noon.

The Mr. said "10:30."

....

WHAT? How can it be 10:30 when we got UP at 10:30?

Then we both realized it was our dumb alarm clock.

I got this alarm clock as a present around 12 years ago. This particular alarm clock was way cool back then because it automatically reset itself for daylight savings time twice a year. I never had to set it.

As you all know a few years back the government (or whoever decides these things) decided to make spring forward earlier and push back fall back dates. This means that in fall my alarm clock sets istelf two to three weeks too early and I have to reset it to the correct time. Then when DST ACTUALLY ends I have to set it again. Then in spring when daylight savings time starts I have to manually set the clock but a few weeks later (this morning) it sets itself forward another hour and I have to reset it AGAIN!

So we missed church twice in the same day LOL!

SIGH

Anyway so I finished the devilled eggs but alas, I could not find my paparika. I knew we weren't out, but I noticed I'm also missing my chili powder and a few other "tall" spices. In my grocery store the "cheaper" spices are in tall containers and the more expensive spices are in sort containers ... I still have all my short spices so where are all my tall ones? Well I certainly didn't have time to look for it so the devilled eggs just went without their signature spice.

We went to see The Mr.'s family - I don't see mine because they are all so far away. (Actually my dad is close but he and his wife literally HIDE every major holiday - guess they don't like crowds.) We did brunch and we did the egg hunt there. I managed to overdress *gigggles*. Why is it when I dress casual everyone else is dressed nice and when I dress up everyone else is in sweats and jeans? Maybe I'm just meant to stand out - or it's just my luck.

In case you weren't aware, today (Easter Sunday) is "Ignore Me" day. I swear to you everything I have said today has fallen on deaf ears. I have never felt so invisible my whole life. And it wasn't just The Mr.'s family - my own husband and children were ignoring me too! I don't think there was even one thing I said that I didn't have to say THREE times! I got so tired of it (being ignored is one of my pet peves and quite frankly it pisses me off - sorry to sound rude) that I finally drove home and got my most recent read - a Shakespeare collection of "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Othello," and "Macbeth." Well I was already reading Shakespeare's Complete Works (Oxford) but that thing is bigger than my study Bible and it's hard to cart around but I found this little book (my daddy gave it to me><) and suddenly I wanted to read Hamlet mroe than anything.

Hamlet is my absolute most favorite story ever! I love it even more than the Earth Children's books I read every year (I just finished Shelters of Stone btw). It just makes me happy. I think about every word is genius.

So I started reading it while everyone else ignored me heh heh. One person asked what I was reading and I replied "Hamlet." They said, "Really? .... Oh" and moved on. I think that's the only time I said something and didn't have to repeat myself. The Mr.'s whole family is smarter than me but I'm pretty sure not ONE of them shares my passion for Shakespeare. And that's okay. I'm pretty sure no one in my OWN family gives a crap about Shakespeare, either. And that's okay, too.

Soon my husband left me there with all five of my kids. I let them play until people started leaving. I helped clean up a bit and then I took the kids home. They all had a fantastic day.

I now have a headache (possibly because I stole a bunch of candy from my children and ate it all lol). My angel found the most eggs today at FIFTY-EIGHT. Now, my inlaws take around 400 plastic eggs and fill up each one with as much candy as they can fit in there. So that was 58 eggs stuffed with chocolate, gum, suckers, and any other candy that was bought. Bossman got 28 and then wasn't interested in finding any more. My Teddy Bear got 54, Poinsettia recieved 49, and my Star got 17. Yuuup, 17. I don't know if he's just too young to be in the "big kid" side or if he, like Bossman, just gave up. It doesn't matter anyway as soon as we got home I dumped all the candy together and we will get them set up to eat them all before the 4th of July comes around. By that time the parade at the campground will supply them with enough candy to last until the next big holiday. One year we got enough candy to last until Halloween!

In any case we had a great Easter! The Mr. just came home (it's 9:30pm) so I'm going to go fix him something to eat for dinner.

Happy Easter!!