As promised, here’s the second installment in the Easter enchilada I’ve experienced this time around with toddlers. Now that you have an intimate experience of Easter egg stuffing, let me direct you to the more Martha Stewart-y portions of the festivities.
My two closest encounters came in the form of: Easter bonnets and rice krispie treat eggs. I have a bit of Martha Stewart in me when it comes to entertaining. Before children, I was actually quite the hostess. I love stationary and spend hours designing invitations with color schemes and fonts (even now I do that with the kids party invites). I love china and collect napkin rings and appreciate my wedding crystal and linens. I do up the house for everything from my mom’s 60th birthday party to an Easter lunch. However, this all was put away when the trio arrived. (We’ll return to what this Sunday’s Easter lunch will look like momentarily.)
HOWEVER, I am not “crafty.” I do not own a hot glue gun. I do not scrapbook. I don’t even understand the crafty process. So you can imagine my head spinning when I was instructed that this Monday the kids, including the boys, had to come to school with decorated Easter bonnets to parade to chapel. I really didn’t want to be that mom that didn’t try, but I was a bit baffled about what to do. I was even more frightened when the kids’ teacher told me, “some of the moms really go all out.” So I went to Target this weekend, because I had to get pull-ups and Annie’s bunnies and did not have time for a separate trip to Michael’s, and bought hats, Easter stickers, and some silk flowers and green twiggy looking things (I figured if there were flowers on the boys hats, Bray would leave me). The stickers would not stay stuck, the flowers/twigs wouldn’t pin on, and here it was 8 pm on Sunday night before the 9 am Monday morning parade. Luckily, my same friend who was stuffing eggs with me also jumped in to help me affix items to the hats. She warily eyed the green berry twigs sprouting forth from the boys hats. She tentatively inquired, “this isn’t what you wanted is it?” I brightly answered, “yes!” Because it was. I thought they’d look like trees. Here’s the hats in the Easter parade, judge for yourself (oh, and I threw in a picture of a random kid whose mother clearly IS crafty so you can see what I was up against):
The eldest parading – front view |
His hat from the back, with classmates |
The baby parading – front view |
His hat from the back |
Little lady heading out of chapel – back hat |
Little lady from the front |
Ridiculous overachieving moms hats |
The chapel parade (click the pics to see bigger view) |
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