The Easter Bunny decided to be a bit unconventional and completely practical this year. Instead of hoards of candy, he brought pool gear. It seems every year we need new stuff either because the sun destroyed it or the dogs did. It helped us get excited for summer. It also reminded me of how much it's going to cost to have the pool fixed. The pool guys are coming this evening to drain my pool so they can start working on replacing a bunch of the tile. As my son likes to call it, it's a "first world problem." Yep, it sure is. Somehow that bit of reality doesn't seem to make it suck any less. My new phrase for events such as this, "everything is awesome!" and yes, I'm being facetious with a hint of optimism.
Dad was in charge of the bunny duties this year. I decided that "load in the back of the truck" wasn't worth my worry. He could do it however he wanted and I would be fine. He didn't disappoint by doing it the completely "man way." He put everything on the fireplace and threw a blanket over it. When the kids started looking in their baskets, they realized that only some got some kinds of candy and the others didn't. At first they were all excited until they realized that they had to divide it up themselves. He had just thrown a full bag of candy in each of the baskets. His only response was, "hey, have you seen the inside of those buckets, they're nasty. The bunny knew they didn't want their candy touching the baskets." Felt buckets stored in the garage of a dust bowl we call a land of enchantment = no bueno. Hey, at least he knew better than to throw the candy in nasty baskets. He must have forgotten that I usually divide it up into bags to avoid that very problem, but the kids didn't care. I'm really not sure what the 2 little ones think about the easter bunny. I know at Christmas they both were adamant that Santa existed. They didn't seem to notice that the pool equipment wasn't marked and I was just handing it out to everyone.
We don't have church until the afternoon, so we got to pretend we were hanging out in the sun by the pool.
The funniest thing was that Jared read the back of the box for his chair and thought there was some fancy quick valve that would blow up the thing for him. It provided me lots of entertainment seeing him try to figure out how to make it inflate itself and then when the realization hit that he would have to do it himself. The valve being "quick release" technology really means that while you are blowing it up, you have to have ninja quick fingers to close the valve before you release all the air you just blew into the dumb thing. Mr smarty pants had to be told by simpleton mom that you have to use your tongue to hold it closed until the last second while you are pretty much closing the valve in your mouth. The entire process exhausted Emma, especially because every time she would try to close the valve, it would loose half the air. My poor kids didn't grow up in the land of low technology like I did to learn these tricks.
I bet you are wondering where the spiritual true meaning of easter is. This is just a fun one about my family being a family on Easter.
ps, isn't Watson adorable? He looks like a stuffed animal.
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