EASTER BASKETS, BUCKETS AND PLATES

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE ON THE KANSAS PRAIRIE.  Blue skies with some wind.  Temps where I like them.  Perhaps SPRING has returned and will stay awhile.  Hope so.  

We started a new tradition for Good Friday.  Egg A la Goldenrod for LUNCH.  Haven't had this meal in years.  Sounded good to me for a hearty and economical meal and we delivered the local GRANDS their Easter treats.  I got to see their smiling faces in person.  The littlest Grandson squealed when he saw the bucket for him.  It was a tender moment for me as a Granny.  

I decided to not go over board on the candy this year.  Tis easy to do so I disciplined myself.  The baby got more items in his bucket than the older kiddos did on their plates.  Only right as he has only had three Easter treats from us verses the older kids.

I know that my Missouri Grandson received his treat yesterday and my Oklahoma Grandsons did as well by the miracle of tracking mail via computer.  

My 22 year old Granddaughter didn't receive a Easter Basket from us this year.  Figure she is a grown woman and that's behind her.  I have to stop some time.  I did Easter treats for her for 21 years.  Wished I had kept a photo book.  So a greeting card will do.  I hope she liked the treats through time.  Her passage into adulthood is something I have been blessed to watch.  All the children and grandchildren are a blessing to see grow up. 

Though the years, I have fixed the GRANDS Easter BASKETS with actual baskets, Easter Plates and some Easter BUCKETS.  Tis fun to fix these.  Always lots of candy and sometimes a toy. When I was a child, we'd wake up on Easter morning to a treat.  One year I remember I couldn't find my Easter Basket.  I thought the Easter Bunny had forgotten me.  It was a beautiful day so Mom put the treat outside in the back yard.  I was relieved to find it.  It was a magical moment.

I handed my grown daughter a sage green gift bag topped with tissue paper.  When she saw the blue in the bag, she asked if it was her Prom Dress?  Yes, it is.  She THANKED me.  I remember how pretty she looked in her Prom dress.  I wasn't sure if she'd even want the dress.

My daughter's High School Prom Dress was given to her to do what she wants with it.  It's been hanging the closet since 1998.  26 years!!!  It hits HOME with me that time has passed and I mustn't be stuck in the past, but alright to have sweet memories.  Seems like yesterday that she went to the PROM and now the older Grands are doing the same.    

  BACK TO THE TREATS.  

He was enjoying the chocolate bunny so much that he cried when his mom took it away because lunch was being served, so Grandpa started to read him his new book about Easter and he stopped crying.  He likes being read to which I think is a wonderful thing.

OUR WEEK HAS BEEN BUSY.

Palm Sunday.  Worked on Easter Baskets.
Finished making the Easter Treats for the Grands 

and placed them in the mail on Monday.

Cataract Surgery on Tuesday with snow blowing.

Wednesday follow-up eye check up.

Shopped in Topeka for reading glasses.

TRACK MEET on Thursday.

More shopping in Topeka.

Some Easter Treats delivered in person.

Saturday Easter egg Hunt will take place.

RESURRECTION SUNDAY!

Blessings to you,

~d