Easter

Easter again! This year's was very nice. Anneke and I went to church and got there early enough to have a seat, so it was maybe the most enjoyable Easter service I've been to in years. Also, I went in with an attitude adjustment. It's awesome that my church is overflowing on Easter. Welcome, everyone!

I have a lot of complicated feelings and thoughts and beliefs about the Easter story, and I don't think the mommy blog is where I feel like incoherently exploring them. But Easter means something different to me every year. This year Good Friday got my attention in a new way. I read about the events that lead to Jesus execution, and I recognized the fear, greed, selfishness, laziness, apathy, and all those other ugly things about human nature--not to be dramatic, but I related to it.

But on Sunday morning I felt my bone-deep faith in the power of redemption and forgiveness, and I felt so glad to be there, sharing it with Anneke who did her "wheels on the bus" dance to "The Strife is O'er" and once again splashing her hands in the Baptismal font.

But before the Easter Bunny comes, eggs must be dyed. With a very enthusiastic daddy who draws crayon snoopies on said eggs.

Thanks, Easter Bunny!

and thanks, Grandma, for a fabulous Easter brunch!

And April's cake is...the Lane cake--apparently an old Southern recipe, but one I have never eaten before this. Must be an east of the Mississippi thing. White butter cake filled with cherry preserves, coconut, pecans, and bourbon. yeehaw!