Corona Easter

Like everyone else across the world, we celebrated Easter from our couch. Quite honestly, I was not in a celebratory mood. I told Christopher on Saturday that I wanted to cancel Easter all together but that wouldn't have been fair to AB. I knew Easter was coming but I thought it was later in the month so I hadn't bought anything to put in Easter eggs. On Saturday a friend dropped off a plant for me, a bag of chocolates and a few little activities for Annabelle. One of the activities was a Harry Potter book with little Lego character. Before I gave her the book I took the Lego off and hid it in my purse. We put one lego piece in each of the first eggs and a chocolate egg in the others. Jesus may have saved the world but AB's 6-year-old friend saved her easter egg gifts. I was prepared for her easter basket. I picked up some outdoor play dishes from Target that say let's play in my mud kitchen and two magic glow in the dark pens. 

This flower cross was outside our church. Please refer back to when
I said I forgot about Easter so we did not contribute any flowers.  

I asked that everyone dress up as if we were going to church. Just because we weren't going anywhere didn't mean we should dress like hobos. Plus there's only a limited number of years left where Annabelle will willingly wear smocked dresses so I need to milk it for all it's worth. There was a small part of me that was sad the old ladies at church couldn't see how cute she looked but we've all had to give up something and I can give up compliments for a few weeks longer. 

Christopher hid the eggs as usual and as usual Sesame Pie missed the most obvious ones. 

We did a video chat with several of my relatives across six states and three time zones. It was a feat of modern technology that we were all together. We had 14 different screens to keep track of and the connections were going in and out so it was a lot of talking over each other, but that made it seem like holidays back home.

Last, but certainly not least, Annabelle and I revealed the latest trick we pulled on Christopher. We're always trying to trick him and it usually looks like Annabelle giving him room temperature coke or hiding his socks. I appreciate her enthusiasm but we needed to up the game a bit. A few weeks ago we saw a car with huge eyelashes attached to the headlights. We giggled about how funny it would be to put eyelashes on Christopher's car and thus was born our next trick. I didn't buy the 3d lashes because they were over $30 and we have a small trick budget. I got eyelash decals instead which did not pack the same punch but I didn't want to waste the $8.97 I paid. I put them on last Sunday and all week AB and I had conversations about whether or not he saw them. To be fair they are very small and subtle, but I guarantee you I'd have noticed them on my car within the first 36 hours. Part of me wanted to see how many weeks we could make it but we decided to tell him on after Easter dinner.

We each stood on one side of the light and made comments like "How's your car?" "Do you need a car wash?" He noticed right away and we could not stop laughing. "We got him, Mama! We got him!" He said. "I've been going to Home Depot and feeling manly all week and this whole time I had eyelashes on my car?!" 

I don't want to repeat a quarantined Easter but pranking Christopher seems like a good tradition to keep alive.