Easter

What a wonderful Easter!  The weather was so nice.  It was the first spring like pretty Easter we have had since moving here to Nebraska.  We had a difficult Triduum as it was the first one we have not attended as a family.  We have discovered that things are just too difficult with Joseph so we opted to only attend Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  The older kids did the whole Triduum.  Jeffrey served MC for Good Friday and Easter Vigil. 

We had a quiet family dinner (as quiet as it can be here at our house) on Sunday afternoon.  It's been so nice to visit with the older children and some of their friends. 

Justin and Lynlee got off to PA.  Their trip was uneventful, Deo gratias.  He started his new job Monday, the 5th.

Jeffrey will be here until Saturday and we are enjoying every moment we get with him.  He is not giving us very much between the text messaging of friends and hanging out with a few others.  I get to spend quality time with him at the Y as we sweat riding the exercise bikes.  Nice!  What more can a mom ask for???  :-)

Skipping rocks at the lake.

We had another visitor during Easter.  It was very nice to see him again and share some great conversation.  Looking forward to doing it again during ordination weekend, God willing.

See Joseph's blog for updated news on him.  The other children are just trying to get the candy out of their system and get back to "normal"....whatever that is.  Would someone remind me next year to put bubbles, fruit and nuts, and maybe some granola bars in their Easter basket?????  PLEASE!

Dave continues to slave for us.  I will not be able to call him Big Dave much longer.  He is melting before my eyes.  Way to go, Dave!!!!!  I'm so proud of you!

So here we are in April.  And true to it's title we have had shower after shower after shower.  Everything is turning so green.  It happens literally overnight.  It never ceases to amaze me.  We are talking about doing a small garden this year.  A SMALL one.  The summers here are just to unpredictable.  I would honestly rather spend my money and time going to the Haymarket on Saturday mornings and shopping at the farmer's market.  Seems much less of a hassle to me. 

The calf is getting bigger.  The chickens are laying again.  The ducks are as cute as ever....and giving us lots of eggs.  I am not sure I'm even doing the layers this year.  The feed has gone up so much that I feel too bad charging people enough money for me to cover my expenses and profit anything.  I think I would have to charge $10 a bird which, organically speaking, is not alot but I don't know if people are serious enough about it for me to spend my summer dealing with it.  Besides, with all the therapies we will have in dealing with Joseph I really don't have the time to deal with much more.

Pictures coming soon.  Spring is awesome at Terra!  Can't wait for the next wave of company at the end of April.  It should be beautiful by then!!!  God bless and happy blessed Easter!