Post by supertrooper1 on Apr 2, 2021 10:28:23 GMT -5
No DS this weekend so we won't be doing the traditional egg hunt/Easter stuff until the following weekend. Beau's family is itching to go dirt bike riding now that the weather is getting better, although there's a pretty good chance it will rain this weekend. He wants to go riding tomorrow with his cousin who just bought a new bike and then Sunday with his son and brother. I don't know if I can handle two days in a row since it can be physically demanding and I haven't ridden in several months.
I have done exactly nothing to prepare for Easter. I need to run to Target today to get stuff for baskets and eggs. I may go to Joann too since I’m having lunch on a patio in the same shopping center today.
We have church tonight and Sunday. Both will be at home for us. Ds1 has soccer Sat and I have a mountain of laundry to fold and put away and only a small hill to wash and dry. We are dropping my car off for service Sat AM. The boys also need haircuts and I don’t want to do it anymore so we have to find them appointments. And I need an eyebrow wax and pedicure. So I feel like it’s a weekend of adulting.
The bunny is leaving the basket at home Sunday but DD is insisting on go to work with me. Yes I'm working Easter. So the bunny is coming to the office to hide all the eggs. DD is totally playing along with the bunny but it doesn't hurt my feelings. I filled the eggs last night after work at work with some chocolate eggs and whatever change was in my purse and called it good. She doesn't care about what is in the eggs just the fun of hunting them. My mom is insisting on having Easter dinner so I won't have to cook Sunday but I really just want to go home and veg in front of the TV for 2 hours before crashing.
Saturday is work, DD has a private lesson, we need to return/pick up books from the library before 6, and I have a laundry and household chores to do.
I'm so tired. Got home with DD from practice last night just before 8. She showered and we did bedtime by 8:20 and I was crawling into bed by 8:40. I just can't keep my eyes open once I get home at night.
I'm hosting a small Easter lunch with my parents and two siblings on Sunday. We're all officially vaccinated now! Woohoo!
It's not my weekend with the girls, but it is my year for Easter, so I'll grab them after dinner tomorrow night and have them for the day on Sunday. I'm supposed to only get them for the actual day, but ExH "offered" to let me have them overnight so that he doesn't have to deal with Easter baskets and an egg hunt when they wake up on Sunday. I love that stuff, so I'm fine with it.
Tomorrow I think I'll clean up the bark mulch in the front garden and go get the fire pit table I've been eyeing. It's just a small propane one, but we can't have a real fire pit and I think it'll be a perfect addition to our patio.
It will just be us for Easter. My parents are away and my sister wanted to go out to dinner. She invited us to join them, but there are still restrictions in place so we couldn’t sit together.
So DH and I will cook a roast beef tenderloin for the 4 of us. Baskets are done. DD2 has a soccer tournament tomorrow and DD1 has boxing. The kids are off today so we are taking them bowling later.
Post by librarychica on Apr 2, 2021 13:52:22 GMT -5
We are going to see H’s family (a couple hours away, same state). It’s supposed to be very nice out so we will have a picnic and let the kids egg hunt. All the adults except me have been vaccinated bc of age or profession and the girls haven’t seen their cousins in 15 months so everyone is excited.
Nothing Saturday. Laundry, I need to get some paperwork together for our accountant. Adulting, basically.
I have a teledoc visit this afternoon for something that can’t/shouldn’t be done virtually because.. reasons. It will likely lead to an office visit referral, which means I waste several days before being seen.
No soccer this weekend, so sleeping in on Saturday (7am if I’m lucky). We’re doing early Easter at a friends house.
Sunday, DD has a pre-sedation covid test and the in-laws are coming over for Easter lunch.
DH and I are going to the Friends experience in Chicago tomorrow and I cannot wait!!
Sunday is pretty chill, church and then Easter egg hunt after church for the Sunday School kids. Then go to my inlaws for the day. Very low key, they LOVE to do a big egg hunt for the kids in their yard and the kids look forward to it every year. I love to sit back and let me inlaws take the lead on this holiday.
Tomorrow we'll dye eggs (oh, I need to hard boil them). We're also doing that Jurassic quest drive through thing at our fairgrounds, which I'm sure will be lame, but oh well. Then DD has a softball game. Luckily DS1's baseball practice was cancelled for tomorrow, so I don't have to have my little ones skip nap to take the two older ones to sports.
Sunday the Easter bunny will come (luckily I got everything together and eggs stuffed yesterday), and then we're going to go strawberry picking. I'll do some cooking and our friends will come for an outdoor dinner. I'm excited to make strawberry shortcake with the strawberries we pick.
My sister is flying here from the East coast on Monday for a week with my two nephews - she was supposed to also bring my niece, but just found out niece was exposed to someone with COVID at daycare. Luckily my parents are vaccinated and can take care of her during the days next week while she quarantines, and my BIL was already going to stay home to work. IT's super crappy timing since she hasn't ever had to quarantine before but now has to right before their trip. This is all assuming she tests negative - obviously if she were to test positive, they have bigger issues than their planned vacation. Fingers crossed.
We are going to MIL's for easter, which will be hard because its the first real holiday without FIL. But it's still good to go. I am supposed to stuff easter eggs and bring deviled eggs. She is making beef wellington, because it used to be FIL's favorite.
Going to church first time as a family Easter. It is still distanced in the school gymnasium. Mom is having Easter. All adults are vaccinated. Truthfully, it would not matter to her either way. Laws of Covid dont apply to her in her mind, and she just got the shot to shut me up. Just her, my brother, my family and 2 uncles. Mil usually doesn't do Easter but invited us for dessert. It is supposed to be beautiful so probably outside even though they are also vaccinated. DH is not thrilled about the entire day visiting, but I told him we are not denying a woman Easter who didn't get Christmas.
sdlaura our family doesn’t eat hardboiled eggs.. last year we made pandemic Easter eggs and didn’t hard boil them so we could still use them.. DD has requested we do it again this year. So we’ll dye them and dry them and put them right back in the fridge and be amused by them every day. And it saves a step! (Although I suppose if you break them, the time savings doesn’t really help.)
We just got back from the house we rented. Accolades- Louisville and Mammoth Cave were really fun. We also went to a nice brewery. The hot tub and pool were great. It is good to get away.
Vents- stressful life wouldn’t leave us alone for our vacation. My dad sent a snarky email, and DH and I talked that since DH works from home dad can’t really stay with us unless it’s a weekend. My assistant manager at work texted me that she is rightly confronting another manager so going back to work will suck, the lady who owned the house was super overbearing and rude, and DH was cranky about various things. So we never de-stressed enough to relax. My allergies are causing sinus pain.
Hopefully this weekend at home will be more relaxing. We have an egg hunt on Sunday. Otherwise just unpacking and relaxing. I was just thinking in-laws should visit us since they are both vaccinated. DH gets his second shot on Monday so maybe we should try to invite them 2 weeks after his second shot. I get they are being careful due to the pandemic so I’m not sure if they will come from out of state but I think they would be safe since they are vaccinated. I just don’t know what they are thinking anymore. Their communication is not great.
Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 3, 2021 7:54:19 GMT -5
DH got forced into OT today so I'm solo with the kids until tonight. He's going to be missing Easter with my family, which is just pizza and Easter baskets from my mom. Our cleaning lady was sick this week so the kids and I are trying to get the house ready for my family to come over. I also want to color eggs with them and I need to get eggs to FIL's house for the egg hunt there tomorrow without the kids knowing the Bunny doesn't actually fill them lol
Tomorrow we will go to mass, do the egg hunt at FIL's, then go back for lunch. I'll need to do some meal prepping too. I had to get my fat pants out yesterday so Monday I am getting down to business on eating right and exercising. I'm tired of feeling like garbage.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Apr 3, 2021 9:08:27 GMT -5
k3am that’s pretty inspired not to boil them although dd pretty forcefully dropped two eggs into the dye and cracked them. Maybe next year we can do that. We don’t put the boiled eggs outside so why not? And this year my mom and I were kind of arguing who is taking the most boiled eggs BC neither one of us wanted to take more than a few!
sdlaura we did that T. rex Jurassic drive thing over the summer! It was lame. But at the same time the kids thought it was awesome? I hope you enjoy it...or your kids do at least. Come to think of it, it was 4 months into the pandemic and it was their first outing so that may have had a lot to do with it.
We dyed eggs yesterday (Friday). My office is closed that day but I had a meeting so I had to go in and we dyed them after.
But my neighborhood had a whole unmasked egg hunt on our street yesterday morning too so the sitter got the kids early and cleared them out of the neighborhood for several hours at a park and then just at her house because I’m not comfortable with that kind of unmasked contact with that many kids who aren’t in our germ circle :/
So today each of the kids are having a friend over and we’re going to do a little fun Pre Easter hunt egg hunt
The egg kit I bought post Easter last year is glitter eggs. I didn't even notice it until DD pointed it out yesterday. DD convinced my mom that egg dying at grandma's was a fun activity for them today. I really don't remember the last time my mom dyed eggs...probably before I realized the bunny wasn't real so a good 32 years ago and even then I think dad did them. I also sent along melting chocolates and pretzel rods for them to do.
We just finished dying Easter eggs. DD ate 3 before we finished. I swear, she drops them on purpose so she gets to eat them before we finish decorating them!
We decided to do what my family always did and have an Easter lunch instead of dinner. So ham and cheese on a platter with slider rolls to make sandwiches, potato salad (from the deli), chips, and deviled eggs. I may grab stuff to make a salad so there’s something healthy there.
Thankfully my kids love hard boiled eggs. They scoop out the yolk and put in hummus.
I built my new gas fire pit table all by myself today! I can't wait to sit around outside all summer with beau and the kids! I'm super proud of myself and love how it looks on the patio.
DS1 ate 6 of our hard boiled eggs today - he loves them. Hopefully there’s still enough left for deviled eggs tomorrow.
The Jurassic Quest was fun for a bit but when the cars backed up it was annoying, and I had to get DD to a softball game, so I drove over some little cones to get out of there
And the drama continues. After my mom was complaining she didn’t get asked to go on vacation with my sister now she is complaining about the same thing for me. The problem is she complains the entire time about every little thing. For example every house we rent she has multiple comments. It’s just not relaxing. DH and I almost murdered her when we were in Hawaii. The first morning she complained we went to the beach without her and let her sleep in. It was not a “beach trip”- we literally walk out of the hotel and the beach is there. Then a different day she complained we woke her up. Which would you prefer?
It just went on like this multiple times a day. Because it is 5 people instead of 4, we have to rent a bigger house and rent 2 cars or a bigger car. She also started a new thing where she just talks over us. You know how 2 people start talking and they both stop and one continues. She doesn’t- she just keeps talking like my mouth isn’t moving. Anyway we don’t really have room for her in our car either. The entire back is full, seats down and a dog..
This is on top of my dad being snarky because I suggested a weekend trip. I just don’t get it. We are still in a pandemic but everyone acts like I owe them all this stuff. I rented a house to visit them in January because they couldn’t make their trip to see me. Then she just came 2 weeks ago and we did a whole state park day trip.
waverly IMO, family vacations are too precious and cost too much to put up with that. I guard ours with a vengeance, because those are some of our best memories. As a mother of an almost 18 yr old, looking at possibly our last family vacation, it is shocking when you realize that, so I am I didn't let anyone take it away. Except the one time when we went with MIL and SIL and they seemed to have a contest of who could be the bigger ass, never again after that.
waverly IMO, family vacations are too precious and cost too much to put up with that. I guard ours with a vengeance, because those are some of our best memories. As a mother of an almost 18 yr old, looking at possibly our last family vacation, it is shocking when you realize that, so I am I didn't let anyone take it away. Except the one time when we went with MIL and SIL and they seemed to have a contest of who could be the bigger ass, never again after that.
When the kids were little the idea was she can watch them so we could do a date night. It went ok for a few years because we had 2 cars, so we could go in different directions. But the kids can be left alone now for short periods of time so we don’t really need her help, and she became irritable if we asked her to brush DD’s hair for example. We decided to do only driving vacations to areas with low cases due to the pandemic.
It’s just seems like this week everyone wants something from me, these people don’t work, don’t have school age kids, have no additional stress. I can’t help them. They need to figure things out on their own. Some of them are boomers but one is DH’s brother who has only worked a year in his life, and is 35 and lives off his parents. My mom is helpful in other ways, but my dad and DH’s brother have never been helpful a day in their life.
My mom used to ask occasionally with good intentions (she’ll offer to book a nearby room! She can babysit and we can go on a date!) and we don’t have to say no, just talk details (she didn’t like the price tag of the hotel, she couldn’t change diapers, getting to the beach involved about 200 stairs!) and she’d talk herself out of it.
DH’s family keeps trying to plan something and I’m scared it will actually happen today.. but it’s at least been delayed for enough years that both kids sleep at night and I don’t need to plan my days around nursing and naps...
It really makes me feel like doing less for people. I didn’t even respond to my dad’s snarky email. He can plan something with my sister if he is going to be snarky. And I really wish I hadn’t answered BIL’s phone call. I thought there were health issues with MIL and FIL but then I realized he has never bothered to communicate with us about that- and they’ve had a lot of health issues he could have helped with. It was only about himself from the time he was a teenager, but also because he doesn’t live in the real world anymore. My dad doesn’t either. I hope I don’t get as bad as they are when I’m retired.
Post by traveltheworld on Apr 4, 2021 9:53:05 GMT -5
I'm a little freaked out.
We went skiing with our bubble families last Sunday/Monday and one of the dads just tested positive for covid. We were together the whole time and hung out in his hotel suite for a few hours drinking.
He started feeling a bit unwell Friday night but thought it was just seasonal allergies, we had an Easter egg hunt planned for yesterday afternoon, so we just went ahead (he didn't attend) - everyone wore masks and we were outside, but the kids were definitely running and piling on top of each other.
The reason why we bubble with these families is because everyone is very cautious, so the only plce he could have caught covid was on the ski hill or at the hotel. We didn't even eat at restaurants. I'm going to get ourselves tested today. I'm also really worried for him as he is a bit overweight. The few people I know who had covid still have symptoms months later so I'm worried for him and his family.
Contact tracing is 2 days before the onset of symptoms. Maybe you are in the clear but then with the kids all in top of each other? I would get everyone tested at this point, maybe tomorrow.... Is anyone vaccinated in the group?