He Is Risen

He is Risen Indeed! Yes, here is Easter, the commemoration of our Lord's resurrection. Before I babble about the fun C had with her eggs and gifts and whatnot, I need to mention Pastor Quinn's really powerful sermon from church on Sunday. The title of the sermon: To be, or not to be, that is the resurrection! The English teacher in me loved the literary reference, of course, and the connection between the Hamlet section and the resurrection message was quite poignant. Hamlet's soliloquy at that point in the play indicated his melancholy; he was contemplating suicide. He no longer had any hope. _But_ it it is precisely because of the resurrection that _we_ have hope! Of course, there was more to it than that, but it was a beautiful message of hope and future and life abundant and eternal.

C, however, spent the service in the nursery, so she's still at the "Easter's a celebration" stage of understanding though she doesn't yet understand what it's a celebration of. We decorated eggs on Saturday, and she hunted for them on Sunday morning, as well as for the plastic ones filled with treats. She also got spoiled by her grandparents who were here visiting for the weekend, and got all sorts of neat toys from them. Her favorite by far is the Snow White dressup outfit. Now we can have friends over and have princess gatherings. Mommy's goodies have been ignored thus far. I put together a plastic box filled with a plethora of crafting supplies. (child-safe scissors, gluesticks, construction paper, pipe cleaners, fuzzy balls, rhinestones, glitter, google eyes, ribbon, stickers, paper doilies, paints, fingerpaint, and playdoh) I'm sure they'll be discovered soon. It should be fun to create with her.

In life beyond the holiday, I've discovered the true blessing of hardwood floors: they're a whole lot easier to clean up vomit from than carpet. C got sick yesterday and I spent much less time cleaning up after her than I did back at Irwin. She's better now, and we've got some high school girls from the band performing at our chapel tomorrow staying with us. She was so excited to "get the ladies!" and showed off all her energy for them in the hour before bedtime. She seriously wears me out some days. This would be one of them.