With Jude winding down his senior year of high school, I keep thinking about how many “lasts” we are having as a family of four.

With Jude going to CU Boulder next year, at our house we will be a family of three most of the time. Who knows if Jude will be back for Easter next year, so the Easter celebration was particularly poignant this year, at least for me.

Marcy has made every Easter extra special since they were babies. And this year, both kids got their Easter baskets, as they do every year. And then Marcy worked in the kitchen most of the day to make a sumptuous Easter dinner of salmon, asparagus, cucumbers, and dinner rolls. Then, of course, there was dessert – a delicious strawberry shortcake. Everyone was satisfied.