Happy Easter

Nat and I have had great fun this week getting ready for Easter.

We painted cut out eggs and made a chain of yellow chicks.

He loved blowing eggs and painting them.  I then decorated them with ears or little gems and we made little stands for them.

We put everything around the fireplace to create a little Easter display.

Nat bought me a lovely Narcissus plant so that joined the display too.

I accidentally dropped one of the eggs and it smashed.  I knew Nat would be upset so I popped it back on the mantlepiece and stuck a couple of feathers inside.  As far as Nat is concerned  - that one hatched!!

Had a slight crisis on Thursday when I went to Sainsburys supermarket after work to pick up some chocolate eggs for the boys.  Imagine my horror to find their shelves completely bare of eggs and a shop assistant telling me that apparently there has been a national egg shortage.  A National Egg Shortage?  You have to be kidding me!!

Anyway, Friday morning I went to both Tesco and the Co-op and both shops were also out of all the decent eggs.  I managed to pick up a couple of eggs to make do.

Fortunately I needn't have worried as by the time grandparents and other friends had dropped over the eggs that they had kindly bought for our boys they had plenty of variety to choose from.

Nat helped me decorate some little Easter cakes - spiced fruit simnel cup cakes with a nugget of marzipan inside.

 

 

We hosted a bring and share supper on Saturday evening for my church women's group and their

partners.

It was great because I cooked a couple of Lasagnes, made some Chilli Con Carne and Rice and a Maccaroni Pie and the guests bought salads, bread, deserts and drinks so it wasn't nearly as much effort as it would normally be if I had been preparing all the food.

It was a great evening but we were then up half the night with Nathaniel who woke with difficulty breathing.  He was really struggling to breathe and had a very definite wheeze.  I ended up calling the out of hours doctor in the early hours of the morning and they made an appointment for  later in the day.

Consequently we didn't get much sleep but by the time Nat woke up he was bright as a button and nothing was discernably wrong with him.

Nat was very excited to come downstairs and find the white powdery trail of bunny prints leading from the front door into the lounge where a pile of Easter eggs had been left for the boys.  The little paw prints then continued through the lounge and into the kitchen, through the conservatory and out the door.

Nat was thrilled with his chocolate eggs and drove all the way to church clutching a small white chocolate bunny.

It was a lovely Easter service and Nat came out with another Easter egg.

We then drove up to the hospital where the out of hours doctors surgery is held.  I was really embarrassed to take Nat in looking so well.  The doctor was lovely (in fact I think I have met her before on a previous occassion when I made a trip to the out of hours doctor.  It seems that every special occasion one of the boys gets sick.  I was at the hospital Boxing Day, New Years Day and now Easter Sunday too)

Anyway she listened to Nat's chest and could hear a wheeze so I didnt feel completely stupid for having taken him.  She diagnosed a viral wheeze and told me to keep on giving him the ventolin inhaler five times a day but she also prescribed a steroid inhaler that she wants us to use on him for the next week.  Hopefully that should do the trick and we might get a better nights sleep tonight!

Back home Nat discovered that the Easter bunny had left an Easter bucket and a trail of eggs in the garden for him to collect.

 

It has been a nice lazy day.  Hopefully the weather might brighten up for Bank Holiday Monday tomorrow.