Today we swept and mopped the entire house. The kids had a pretty good attitude about it all. The mop water wasn’t as dirty as it was a week ago.
We had pop tarts for breakfast, and after cleaning we had Bonnie’s favorite comfort food. Tomato soup and tuna sandwiches. I did not grow up on tomato soup, so it’s a taste I just am not accustomed to. But it tasted fine to me, and the tuna sandwiches were mediocre at best. I made them.
Bonnie and I have trained the children to clean up after meals, including putting food away, cleaning and drying dishes. Putting the dishes away, clearing the table and sweeping under the table. It only takes the four kids ninety minutes to two hours to do this each meal. We almost never raise our voices.
As tradition, we (Bonnie) dyed Easter eggs with the kids. In her infinite wisdom she moved all the dining room chairs far from the kids splash zones.
The kids enjoyed dying the eggs, I dyed two eggs, I put one in blue and one in black dye. That’s right, we had black dye. I think I only did this so when my kids asked where my eggs were, I’d play the song “Blue on Black”. After a while they got tired of hearing that song. I played it over and over. I told the kids that I was planning to keep the egg in the black dye all day, and they thought that was the funniest idea. Behold, the black egg.
We started doing laundry upstairs and let the kids watch Harry Potter 4, my favorite. I like Voldemort, and this is the one he comes back in. Bonnie folded while I did dishes, during dinner, the kids created their own type of “go fish” game and played it.
After dinner the kids finished the movie and I made chocolate dipped strawberries.
After the movie ended, we brought the kids downstairs to do a little traditional Jesus story and his miracles. We set aside 2 fish and 5 crackers and tell them about the miracle with the fish and bread. We leave out water and tell them about Jesus’ first miracle, and we then maim gummy bears eyes and ears, and legs and tell the kids about Jesus healing the blind, the deaf, and the paralyzed. The next morning they wake up and the water is grape juice, the platter is overfilled with fish and crackers and the gummy bears are healed. They know we do this, but they get excited. Tomorrow is Easter, some refer to it as Resurrection Day. This is the day we commemorate Jesus rising from the dead. It’s the most important day in Christendom. We have a lot of friends who aren’t Christians and we don’t bash it over peoples heads, we let our actions do the talking. It’s great if you’re only seeing my wife’s actions. 😀. I’m off to go prepare for tomorrow. Good night.
Our Family Adventure 