This year we decided to once again invite too many people to comfortably fit inside our house over for Easter and luckily the weather held out so we could be mostly in the backyard. Our general hospitality plan is to invite everyone we know over and hope for the best and so far it's always worked out just fine!
In the morning we went with our usual Easter routine and attended early mass and then came home and had a forced photo shoot before the kids were allowed to get into the house and hunt for their baskets. Once everyone devoured their chocolates we did some major last minute tidying up and food prep before our guests arrived. We got everything done in the nick of time, mostly because we sent the children outside so they would stop destroying every room as soon as I cleaned it up, like the darling little tornadoes of destruction that they are. That and Chris strapped Christopher to his back.
It's possible that I went a little overboard in making our cascarones this year. We ended up with about 380 eggs give or take those that succumbed to some rather successful baby sneak attacks. Our annual hunt was longer than ever since we had more eggs than ever, but in the end it was Margaret who had the glitter smashed into her hair. She was fairly inconsolable about being hit in the head with an egg, but she eventually calmed down when she realized that she got the giant golden rabbit as her prize. Also, I probably should have listened to Chris when he suggested something other than glitter in the prize egg since it's so hard to get out of hair.
I think everyone enjoyed themselves, but I should have been paying more attention as our guests were leaving because somehow we were left with two cakes, a pie, a bag of cookies, a sweet bread, two bags of chocolate covered pretzels, and six cupcakes. I guess it's a good thing the Easter season lasts so long because we have desserts enough to feast through the whole thing :)
I hope you all are enjoying your own Easter festivities and that no one else is having to clean glitter out of their children's hair!
