Easter Fun
and a lot of personality from my toddler | Ed 60
I love Easter weekend. I feel very dissonant between how I normally spend most of the weekend and the actual significance of Good Friday and Easter. It’s hard for me to coexist in reverence and fun; to fully attend to a church service while caring for a little one or fighting the urge to think about what is next. Nevertheless, I have never felt more aware of the reality of “this body, broken for you” or more humbled by my own not-enough-ness and the sacrifice I didn’t deserve.
Easter typically comes with a lot of family quality time especially with people we don’t see often; this weekend was no different! We saw all of Banner’s siblings which is a really rare occurrence. We got a lot of time with them including taking them on a tour of our new house! We also had an extended family dinner that was very well attended and sweet. Look at all these great-grandkids! This isn’t even all of them - just the ones who were present and of easter egg hunting age. Wild.
What’s On the Menu?
A lot of avocado toast
Excellent queso at White Duck Taco
a clumpies cookie butter cone
And many incredible meals that I contributed little value to - mostly made by Kim who I am in awe of for being able to feed so many hungry mouths so regularly. I can’t even adjust to feeding a little person.
Reading, Watching, Listening
I’m reading The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard and I love it. It has elements of time-travel, conspiracy, romance, etc. and I just happened to spot it on my “want to read” shelf from a few years ago. 10/10 about halfway through.
I worked a lot this week, so I wasn’t listening to tons of podcasts. I did listen to most of this which I was relieved to see because I listened to the original (uncomfortable) conversation that led them to have a couple’s therapist on. No shade, everyone needs a couple’s therapist, so I’m glad they did this!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We closed on our house! So excited and also overwhelmed by all there is to do. I had some super exciting conversations about painting and design that I’m pumped to get started on!
I realized today that I need to write about a million essays (yet again) for scholarship applications. Tough pill to swallow in this season.
Banner and I looked over this morning, and Drew had gotten a hold on a whole box of Cheerios which he promptly dumped out. Toddler stage is not for the faint of heart.
“who are you calling naughty?” It is really adorable to see how much Drew loves his grandparents and aunts and uncles!
My phone and watch keep switching to central time during the middle of the night. About once a week, I wake up thinking I have slept wonderfully and have an hour to kill, only to find that I’ve actually woken up late. It is a nightmare.
Drew is getting simultaneously so fun and affectionate as well as blindly independent and very strong-willed. A shock. It is hard to handle big feelings and boundaries for a person so little. Luckily, he seems more gracious than we are.
the zeal for life is incredible! We got to go meet our newest little baby friend this week and that was about as adorable as you can imagine! Women are incredible.
Banner is a super dad in the midst of Drew’s transitions as well as our own which is a huge gift to our entire family.
Drew loves his outside time and really all time with dada
Have some solo travel coming up this week which is exciting! Talk to you next Sunday!