easter weekend

Long weekends are the best.  In my humble opinion, every weekend should be three days and the work-week four, but that's not likely to happen in my lifetime.  I do wish there were more statutory holidays throughout the year.  I think New Brunswick is the only province left to join the "family day" band wagon which would give us an additional holiday in February.  Should we get a petition going??  

This weekend, much like most others, has been filled with chores.  One of my recent projects has been going through Ruby's old clothes and trying to decide what to do with it all.  Needless to say, our basement is a mess with bags of tiny cute outfits... all with memories attached.  Another project is painting our bedroom furniture.  It used to be red and now it's white.  Almost done.  One or two more nights of painting should do it.  

ASIDE FROM ALL THE CHORES..... we did manage to have a little fun this weekend!  We enjoyed a brisk walk Friday morning and then made cookies in the afternoon.  Daddy helped too.  

Cheese!

Is she posing here, or what?  

Easter cookies! 

Easter mantle. 

Saturday of this long weekend got off to a good start as well.  We enjoyed a lovely breakfast with our friends the Jorgensen's.  The sun was shining and it wasn't freezing, so the kids played outside on the deck with the papas and the mamas got a few minutes to relax and chat on the couch.  So nice.

Ruby's tucked away in bed and I just finished hiding little plastic eggs around the living room and can't wait for morning to go hunting them with Ruby.  We've never done this before as a family and I'm pretty excited.  The last time I had an Easter egg hunt must have been...... 1987?  I'm long overdue.   I'll definitely try to get a video and some good pictures of all the action.  

To be continued.....