Anna with the Easter eggs she painted

The kids have been really looking forward to Easter. With the world still in quarantine I think it was comforting for them to have a familiar ritual. So, we kept Easter pretty much the same as it always is. An Easter egg hunt, baskets filled with candy and presents. It was a very cold day with a little snow so the Easter egg hunt this year was indoors for the most part with just a few eggs on the back porch.

Getting ready to open all their Easter goodies

We decided today that we would let the kids eat whatever they wanted and have no limits on screens. We are usually pretty strict on both those things but it was a cold day and being Easter we thought it would be ok. We also bought them a new video game: Animal Crossing which Anna loved but Jude was not a big fan. Both kids loved the unlimited screens. Jude watched five episodes of The Office, his current favorite show and Anna watched a Hunger Games movie and some of The Office as well. Neither kid stepped off our property today but we did insist on some exercise so they each did a short session on our new Peloton which arrived this week.

Jude being a typical teenager and refusing to have his photo taken

Earlier this week it was Anna’s half birthday. The tradition is we get donuts and we were a little worried that it would prove difficult with so many places closed. But our favorite donut place was doing takeout so Marcy went out with Anna to get her an apple fritter, her favorite doughy treat.

Enjoying her 11 1/2 birthday