Blessed Wester to All

Since the Orthodox don't celebrate the Easter feast - Pascha - until next month, we decided to distinguish between the two by celebrating Wester with my family today. (East)er vs. (West)er - get it?! It was actually kind of nice to be able to separate our little family celebration from the larger family celebration. Our kids weren't already tired out, candied up and churched to death when we got to Muffy's house for the annual cousin's Easter egg hunt. It was a nice, laid back time - we did break our fast with ice cream for dinner. That was so tasty although the kids were a bit disappointed that they couldn't break their fast with some MEAT. We did call Tad's folks with our annual round of the Alleluiah song. The kids are getting much better at it and we now have enough voices to actually sound like a small choir. That's a tradition I've always loved and I hope at least one of our children will think to teach it to their family and call up their dad each Easter....

So for those of you on the Western calendar - have a joyous Easter season! For those of us on the Eastern calendar, we'll be slogging through 5 more weeks of Great Lent....