It's funny how time slips away from you when life is going good and you can stay busy! My health is better now and I have 14 grandchildren so that alone is enough to keep me busy. Ha ha..I love them dearly and feel very blessed. I now know what my mother felt having all those precious children come over on a Sunday or holiday.
The fond memories of mom come back to me each holiday and Easter is just around the corner so it floods my mind of the happy days when mom would take time time to cut up pieces of paper and write little rhymes of where to find the candy eggs. I could hardly stand to go to bed on the Eve of Easter because of those handwritten notes that mom made for us. How she must have laughed along with my dad when coming up with them!
"There is something pink, hiding under the sink, Go look for the candy green by the washing machine and it's all white sitting by something bright."
My mother loves games, played them with us kids and the grand-kids all of her days on earth and this was right up her alley. I miss you mom and a day does not go by that something reminds me of you!
The Easter food was awesome as well because I could smell it cooking from my bedroom and after the candy hunt, we would dig into it with joy. Our basket was always at the end of the hunt and the big trophy with lots of neat things in it. Baked ham smells wafted through the house and if the weather was nice, we would go outside for a hunt so the other fragrance of my moms beloved hyacinths would consume us with heavenly outside fragrances.
My kids got to do their candy egg hunt after church and often times they had an egg hunt at church too so that was just about as good as Christmas to them.
Now I spend the day with my wonderful hubby in church and then out to dinner since we make Sunday our go out to eat time. I love seeing all the kids enjoying this day but most of all I enjoy what my Lord and mother did for me to make it so special! Now she is with Him in heaven and I will someday join that party which I can only imagine how it is on the special day of First Fruits, the true meaning of Easter. Enjoy the season everyone, He is risen!
1 comment:
Nice memory.
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