This Easter was an amazing time of reflection of what Jesus Christ sacrificed for us. Words really cannot adequately describe His gift, but I am so humbled and thankful.
We celebrated Easter this year with LOTS of music! Our church choir performed twice {once on Good Friday and once on Saturday} and we rehearsed almost every day the week before Easter. It was so cool to be a part of spreading the true meaning of the holiday through song. I LOVE to sing and have a renewed sense of the gift God gives us through songs after sitting last semester out of choir. Taking that "sabbatical" really helped me to realize how awesome it is to have the opportunity to
"...sing and make music from your heart to the Lord."
~Ephesians 5:19
To memorize the musical, we listened to it over and over in the van, so, naturally, Camden and Melia knew every word to every song. Their favorite was "Oh, Happy Day!" I have to admit, it was one of my favorites, too.
On Easter, we spent lots of time with both families after church and did a couple of {indoor} egg hunts.
One thing to note...this was the year that Melia found out there is no Easter bunny. Honestly, we've never done the Easter bunny. We just never wanted to take away from the true meaning {and Melia has always been terrified of large holiday-related costumes, so it was a natural choice}. I'm not sure that she even knew what the Easter bunny supposedly does, but when her friends talked about what all they got from EB, she crawled up on her teacher's lap and said, "Mrs. Schmidt, could you E-mail my mommy? I don't think the Easter bunny visited our house." Mrs. Schmidt, in her amazing-Christian-woman-that-we-are-so-blessed-to-have-for-kindergarten-in-public-school wisdom, said, "Melia, honey, why do we celebrate Easter?" to which Melia answered "Jesus". {Insert Proud Mama smile here!} So we talked about it and she gets it and she was totally cool with it...especially since she still gets a small gift in a basket on Easter morning to symbolize the gift that Christ gave us through His death and resurrection. :)
Your kiddos are the cutest! I LOVE how Melia's teacher handled that. It gets tricky in a public school when the kids start asking about Santa, the Easter Bunny etc. This year one of my sweet kiddos announced (very loudly) to the whole class that hunting for eggs and getting baskets is fun... but Jesus rising again is why we celebrate Easter! :)
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