Farmish Momma

Well actually, its been 2 years since I posted our Easter picture.  Best laid plans of sharing these pics on Sunday were laid to the side for life to happen.  We had quite a beautiful day on Sunday.  On Monday, we were invited to spend the day with one of our favorite families.   Easter mass was beautiful and quite a bit earlier than we are used to.  Somehow we all made it there on time with some time to spare and a whole empty row for our family.  We can still fit in one row if we don’t mind the no elbow room factor.

The sewing room this week has been over taken by aprons, dresses that needed to be altered as well as Livie’s dress which we remade from a big girls to match her sisters.  She was very excited to have a big girls dress.  Of course, I always have to leave something for the last minute so in regular fashion, I was up way past the last hours of lent to make some last minute Bag-skets for everyone to use instead of a basket this year.  Mateo has his full of flowers, twigs, eggs and every rock he found outside.  I even lost my mind and made the boys bags from comic fabric.  (did you know that I loathe all character  images so my children have never had any clothing, bedsheets or anything else like this).  They are very, very excited which makes me feel as though I have robbed them of a bit of fun over the years.

We came home to take the traditional Easter pics.  We have always done it in front of our favorite tree which of couse is not here.  Last year, it was too much for me to even think about with all that happened around that time and so last year, we only have a few pics taken by Poppa which were do washed out by the sun in the kids faces that I never posted them.  This year, we continue our tradition under a new favorite tree.

The girls and I then retreated to our kitchen sanctuary to cook 10 different foods, it was quite the feast.  Olivia received a new apron and has really not missed an opportunity to use it since.  After dinner, Nick and I hid all the eggs and we spent the next few hours outside watching everyone hunt and just enjoying the beautiful weather.  The chickens seemed to find quite a few eggs themselves and then we had the most amazing visitor from the woods.  I will devote a post to it tomorrow.  We are still in awe and amazement so come back tomorrow to find out who it is.

Click here, here and here to see our Easter portraits from years past.

I am breaking my Holy Week fast to come and share just a little bit of our Good Friday.

As I was taught as a child,  we have taught our children that Good Friday is a day of quiet and remembrance.  We keep quiet in the house which of course is a challenge with babies.  They of course do not understand but we do our best to read and play with them in a quiet manner.  In my house growing up, my momma would have been cooking cod fish which really dislike.  In our home, we mostly fast on Good Friday set aside for a small breakfast and lunch followed by a simple dinner.  I let the kids decide if they will fast and every year, they take it on themselves.  Tonight we will satisfy that hunger with our bean soup as we do every year.  I have spoken of our Lenten Jar before.

It has been storming here so bad that there was an explosion at the GE Plant 45 minutes from here,  the zoo I hear is closed due to ash raining down from the explosion and many a friend woke up to a flooded basement.  We have been blessed to have no damage here.  Just a few little ones rattled by the thunder who seeked refuge with a big sibling.

No work is done today.  We did it all yesterday and whatever was not done is not important.  There is always tomorrow.  Today we will finish watching Jesus of Nazareth on DVD.  It is a very long movie and I watched it every year on tv as a child.  We usually start watching it little by little on Monday of Holy Week.  Do you remember it on tv so long ago?

We hold silence from the hours of 12 to 3.  Little ones take their nap during this time.  The rest of us watch the movie.  We will then go to Stations of the Cross.

The rest of today will be spent reading books, knitting and just being together.  Tomorrow will be a busy day of preparations for a glorious Easter.  I have a list as long as my arm but it will all be done as I can.  I am thinking of adding something new to our yearly Easter lunch.  Not sure yet what that might be.

I will, by God’s grace, be here tomorrow or Easter to share with you our celebration and also this years Easter outfits.  I may or may not have a bow tie to make.