Firstly it was a hockey weekend. Our home team played our arch rivals and won, moving on to the next round of playoffs. This was DS1's former team. DS1, on the other hand, was one of the teams that made it to the top 16 in the US. His team flew out to the East Coast for a regional final. It's a 'lose one and you're done' kind of playoffs. They won their first game and made it to top 8 in the country, but lost their second game by a hair. So they are done now. If they had won they would have gone on to the Frozen Four Finals, which, ironically, are in Florida this year.
DS2 came home Friday evening, gathered up some things and headed off with his friends to a cabin about an hour north of here. They had a great time together in the snowed in cabin and got home Saturday evening. It was so good to have him home for Easter.
Sunday was Easter dinner at my mom and dad's. There were only 7 missing, which is pretty good for a family our size. My one nephew, his wife and three kids, DS1 and DS1's gf. The house was jammed with bodies, along with my parents' long time neighbours beside them and across the street.
It was a lovely smorg of turkey, ham, potatoes and gravy, stuffing, veggies, cabbage rolls (all the usual things around here). My mom made home made buns for all and pies - pumpkin, Saskatoon berry and lemon meringue.
One of my nieces is expecting so it was good to visit with her. Another of my nieces was there with her twins, who are 14 months. They were premies so they have, and are still, overcoming a lot of health issues.
It was noisy and chaotic but a great time. The granddaughters started the dishes and the grandsons finished them. We left last, making sure that everything was all cleaned up and put away.
I facetimed with DS1, but they were having a gathering so between the noise of his house and the noise of ours, it was tough to hear.
Our next big gathering will be August long, where we will celebrate my dad's 80th.
What a family.
DS2 headed back to school after lunch.
Here is a pic of the jello eggs my mom makes.
5 comments:
Your Easter sounds big and loud, but not stressful.It is nice that your parents are in good health and up to hosting still.
What Sam said! Love that your parents are still healthy & hosting. I'm definitely stealing the jello eggs for next year. My kids would love it!
I miss my parents every day but especially on holidays. We no longer gather as one big family as one sister is in Bracebridge and the other is in PEI. We make do with family emails and separate celebrations.
I am very lucky things are stable with my parents right now. I worry about the family get togethers fading away when they are gone. When my grandparents passed we swore it would not happen, yet it did. We rarely get together, even the aunts/uncles cousins here in town.
Those jello eggs are too cute!
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