Easter 2014

For the week leading up to Easter they must have been talking about it at school because it certainly wasn't on my radar, yet Faith kept asking how many sleeps to go? how does the easter bunny get into our house? how many eggs might she get? I put it off and put it off and in the end I explained to her that Easter is the whole weekend and we'd have an easter egg hunt on Monday not Friday. She accepted that well thank goodness. And it turned out great not only cause I got to put off going to the shops to buy a few treats, but when I did yesterday they were all half price!

We had a quick FHE before the hunt about the true meaning of easter by watching the clip below. The girls said it was boring cause there was no talking, or even singing, but after we explained the meaning of it they thought it was really special. Special alright!

When it came to the hunt Faith really wanted to do it outside, but I told her it was a bit rainy and that might mean there would be slugs and snails around that could get into the chocolate. With that, she was happy to have it in the lounge. So I told the girls that when I got back from my meeting (aka easter egg shopping) I found a note from the easter bunny with some treats and he said on the note that they had to hide in the office while I hid the eggs in the lounge. Worked perfectly! It's so convenient how I can make up stories like that and my young, naive children believe their Mummy whole-heartedly.