From the Heart, Blog Linkage, Easter Egg Hunt AND Easter Day

Good Monday morning!

I am well aware we talked about the 2021 plan for A Simple Life in January.

To recap, I was going to try to post much shorter blog posts two or three or four times a month instead of the wordy/picture-heavy posts I have given you the last decade or so.

Turns out, it is very difficult for me NOT to write the long posts.

Very difficult indeed.

Please bear with me today while I try (very hard) to keep this April post UNDER 45,000 words and 52 photos!

Wish me luck!

From the Heart - Here are a few quotes from Ann Voskamp which I read today regarding Easter.

"On the night when Jesus was betrayed, He gave thanks. If Jesus can give thanks in that, you can give thanks in everything."

"If Jesus can dip from the same bowl as Judas, we can share the same table, the same space, with anyone, with grace."

Blog Linkage - If you have any time today, go to https://annvoskamp.com and read her blog post entitled, "WHY THIS IS THE STORY WE ALL HAVE TO GO AND SPEAK."

RANDOMNESS #1 - Easter Egg Hunt - Mike and I hosted our family Easter celebration last Sunday, and below you will find a few photos from that day.

Eden was all about the egg hunt this year. She needed a little assistance at the beginning, but by the end, she was pretty independent.

ME was much more interested in quality over quantity...

And in the end, an egg in each hand was all she really needed.

Some of the Egg Hiders were a little over-the-top when it came to finding the "perfect" hiding places for some of the eggs, but we decided to forgive them after they helped the tiny people retrieve them from tree branches and other ridiculously high places.

RT loves cars, so if anyone came across red plastic eggs (all of which contained cars), they knew he was the only one who could pick them up.

And Judith loves fingernail polish, so if anyone came across purple plastic eggs (all of which contained polish), they knew she was the only who could pick them up.

And so on, and so on.

Since ME was only interested in two empty plastic eggs (and her empty bucket)...

That was all she needed to be perfectly happy.

And just in case you were wondering, Eden was in the corner with her back turned opening her yellow eggs which contained yogurt-covered raisins.

Simple pleasures are truly the best.

RANDOMNESS #2 - Easter - Mike and I went to church with The Chick in Auburn this Easter Sunday, and the other kids sent me several Easter pics from their celebrations today...

And you'll find those below.

Austin and family...

Josh and family...

Mike and Roxie.

We did take a pic with all three of us, and our faces all looked pretty good. However, Roxie was wearing a floral print...

And Mike was wearing plaid...

And I was wearing a blouse covered in vertical stripes.

It was all I could do to sit beside them in church, much less post a photo of the three of us together.

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Okay. From beginning to end, it took 50 minutes to put this post together, so that is much better than I've done in the past.

I am going to try to finish the LONG post I've been working on the last three or four weeks which contains Maine stuff, Eden's second birthday party, etc., etc. before June!

Sincerely,

The Enchanting Belinda

P.S. Someone's playing soccer, and I will try to get that SHORT post up in the VERY NEAR FUTURE!