Living so near to both of our families, we tend to have two celebrations for each holiday. In theory that sounds good, but like Communism, it's not actually that great. Two celebrations means that we spend a great deal of the day driving, that we don't really get to enjoy the food that much because we eat two big meals in one day, and that our kids are off schedule and crazy by the end of the [very exhausting] day. So when I was pregnant with Luke and we knew we'd have a very small baby on Easter, we decided to host at our house and haven't turned back since.
The first Easter we hosted was exhausting. He was so little that I hadn't yet lost my baby weight and I clearly hadn't learned how to dress with my newly inflated, ahem, assets.
Luke was only seven weeks old and still wasn't nursing well. I spent a lot of the day upstairs, trying to get him to latch in between trying to be a good hostess. I failed miserably at both. By the end of the day, he was so overstimulated that he screamed and screamed and screamed, until Shane and I gave in and drove him around in the car until ten o'clock that night.
And yet, it was so good to be home. It still is. This Easter was wonderful. No stress, no new babies, just a happy family as we got our house ready to host. We noticed that a mama robin was making a nest in the basket of flowers I'd set right outside our door. We watched her make her nest all day, in between angrily chattering at us when we'd get too close.
What an awesome reminder of new life today.
I hope your days were beautiful.
Tommy is pantsless due to a cupcake incident. He's not smiling due to surliness over the aforementioned cupcake incident.
9 comments:
I love it! We too live close to both our parents. Usually they fall on different days, but this year we did a double whammy on Saturday with brunch in the morning with my fam and dinner with the hubs' fam.
Oh and we brought back like 10lbs of candy "for the boys". Psh. Yah right. Only if they're spending the next 2 days with my in-laws! :p
That last picture is even more precious for the pantless sulking cupcake boy. :)
We do double holidays for each holiday every other year - the year we are not "on" at my parents house we do "fake" holiday a weekend near the real holiday. We celebrated "fake Easter" last year and we will do "fake Thanksgiving" this year. It's a big joke in my family that my mom doesn't like to give up the holiday even when it's not her 'turn' (both my brothers and I alternate holidays between our parents and in-laws, except for Christmas when we do one Christmas Eve and one Christmas Day). I like it though - double holiday celebrations and we get to see both families without all the driving and crazy in one day. :)
Awww... look at you and your cuties! Love it!
Happy Easter Erin!
One advantage to living so far from my family, no double holidays....
but, good for you for making it work. And we had a small easter at home today and I loved it.
You look adorable! And Easter is my favorite, too. For many many reasons. Such a good day!
Steph
What a beautiful family! I love your dress and your sons are soooo cute. You look so happy =) <3
The bird nest is so cool. She did all that in a day? I'm impressed.
I don't know how to dress with my breast feeding assets either. . .and I'm too broke to go out and buy new clothes. I live in baggy t-shirts and my "fat" pre-pregnancy jeans. I keep telling myself at least they aren't my maternity jeans. :-)
Hope you had a great weekend!
Aw, I love Easter too. So much joy and hope in the day!
Your family is just gorgeous.
I need complete information on your dress and cardigan, please.
XO.
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