Easter Prep Day

I had all intentions of not procrastinating in preparing for Easter. When this week began, I had a vision and a plan. That plan derailed on Monday, and things have been spiraling ever since. Today is my desperate attempt to catch up.

Yesterday I was feeling quite bitter and mad at the world for the way my week had gone. I was overwhelmed, exhausted and frustrated. I have daily and weekly routines that I use to stay on top of things, and my week was shot on Monday. Monday I usually clean. This week instead I had to deal with taxes, and that took pretty much all day. When we got I thought home at 4:00PM I thought I would be able to get some of the cleaning done, but that didn’t happen because Moanna had multiple poop accidents from a lingering virus. Tuesday Steve came down with her sickness, and has been useless every since and needing a lot of attention. Wednesday and Thursday nights I had long (yet fun) church meetings to attend. Thursday the fridge broke. We had to throw away a ton of food and had a huge mess to clean up. Even our Easter eggs were in the temperature danger zone. I made the executive decision that we would save the eggs for hunting purposes only, and that I would boil more eggs for deviled eggs. I’m just thankful that I was too lazy to do the grocery shopping Thursday morning like I had originally planned. When Friday came, it all came crashing down. The house was a total night mare, the kitchen was worse, no food was anywhere to be found. Everyone needed and wanted something, and I had nothing left to give. I was ready to kill.

Thanks for letting me vent…

That was yesterday. Today is a new day. I woke up this morning determined to get a hold of myself, my hormones and my disaster of a house.

I got up this morning, took a shower and got dressed. I made the bed and picked up a few things in our room. When I came downstairs I saw that Steve had fed Moanna breakfast and had started cleaning the kitchen for me. He knew how upset and frustrated I was yesterday, and wanted to help me get back on track, so he used what little energy he had gained over the night to get the kitchen started. This is proof that he loves me, even when I’ve gone over to crazy. I took over in the kitchen and Steve showered. A clean kitchen and clean people are major improvements over yesterday. Major. Now I can conquer the rest of the day.

Here is what my Easter Prep Day (do you remember Holiday Prep Days?) looks like…

1st – I am going to do as much of the food prep and cooking today that I can. Our Easter Dinner Menu is pretty ambitious, so I’m going to get all of the chopping, mincing and mixing done today, so that tomorrow when I get home from church, all I have to do is pop everything in the oven and prepare the food that won’t hold up overnight.

2nd – I told Moanna a little white lie. I told her that the Easter Bunny couldn’t come to our house if it was a mess because he would get lost in her toys. She totally bought it. She is very concerned that the Easter Bunny (she thinks he’s really tiny) will get lost in her toys if she doesn’t clean them up and then he won’t be able to make it to the other little kids’ homes. Is it evil of me to take advantage of her sweet little heart and love for others? Probably, but it worked. Anyhow, operation toy clean up followed by picking up the rest of the house will take place.

3rd – When Moanna isn’t paying attention (aka after bedtime) I need to put together her Easter baskets. We decided to do two this year – one from the Easter Bunny and one from us. Why? Because our child is spoiled. NooOOoo. OK she is spoiled, but that’s not the reason. We don’t want Moanna thinking the Easter Bunny has a huge budget, and we want her to know that in addition to the Easter Bunny and everyone else that has sent her Easter boxes that Mommy and Daddy love her too. If her Easter basket was totally from the Bunny, then he’d get all of the glory and Moanna might think we don’t love her as much as the Easter bunny does. We’re doing a small basket from the Easter Bunny with a little bit of candy and a few small dollar store toys, and a bigger basket from us. Her basket from us will be filled with summer clothes and a beach towel she needs for day camp. Clothes, you say? You are an evil Mommy. NooOOoo. We started doing summer clothes in Moanna’s Easter basket a few years ago and decided to make it a tradition. She has more toys than a daycare and gets a ton of candy from other friends and family. Plus, she doesn’t need to think that Easter is Christmas.

4th – Speaking of thinking Easter is Christmas. The last thing (which is really  the most important) I need to do in preparation for Easter is find a few ways to teach Moanna about the real reason we celebrate Easter. We’ve done a good job so far with getting her to understand the significance of Christmas (she LOVES baby Jesus), but Easter we’ve not been very good at. I had intentions of talking to her about it throughout the week, but along with everything else that got derailed, so did my Spiritual plan for the week. The Friend has a great article outlining the events leading up to Easter that I plan to read to her today and tomorrow. Other than that, I’m lost. If you’ve found some good activities or resources to teach kids about Easter, I would love to hear about it.

That’s my plan. I dare some one to mess with it. I also REFUSE to leave the house… unless it’s for a cheeseburger. I could really go for a cheeseburger…

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