This weekend was a bit of a whirlwind. Well actually last week was a bit of a blur. After Emery's surgery, she was doing well until about Thursday night. ( obviously I typed my last post on Thursday afternoon and post dated it before I knew what we were in for when nap time was over) She started running a fever and was miserable through the night. When she woke up on Friday her little nose was swollen and red. I called the doctor and he started her on antibiotics for infection. She was not herself and miserable all weekend. So some of the plans we had didn't happen, but we did manage to squeeze a few things in.
We started the weekend with coloring a few eggs. I kind of wanted to skip this with all that had been going on, but the kids had been asking, so we hurried and squeezed it in during the short nap time Emery allowed us.
Saturday I took the kids to our ward Easter breakfast. I knew we couldn't miss this, so Corey stayed home while Emery got some much needed sleep and brought her over for just the last few minutes. Right after those two joined us and just as we were finishing up our food, we heard this...
...we hurried over to the grass, got the kids grouped together just in time for this...
...amazing, it's raining eggs. Could there be anything more fun?
According to Brendan, it was awesome. It must have been because I couldn't even find him or Kayden on the field they were getting their eggs so fast.
I found them not too much later enjoying their spoils.
Emery didn't feel quite the same about the whole experience. She was terrified of the helicopter, was still not feeling well, and never even asked to get out of the stroller.It's a good thing she was only there for a few minutes.
Sunday morning we checked to see if the Easter Bunny had visited. He certainly had and he even managed to hide a few eggs for everybody to find, he is always so sneaky that way.
Emery once again, was not so thrilled with life
she did start to come around though and found a few eggs to add to her basket
We got all dressed up and ready for church and by then, finally, Emery had started to act like herself again and even pulled out a few smiles.
I always have to try to get one of all of them together even though my efforts are usually wasted.
It was a rough week, but I hope my other kids were able to enjoy a few things while still taking care of Emery. It's so hard to balance that sometimes. In the middle of all this, I was preparing my sharing time for Sunday too and at first I just kept thinking about how that was just one more thing to get done, but I am glad I was able to prepare it. It never goes exactly as planned, but I was grateful for the opportunity to teach about and remind myself of the reason why we celebrate Easter. I hope my kids remember a little of that too.
