We had a very quiet and laid back Easter weekend. I shouldn’t describe it as a weekend at all to be honest. Easter was pretty much…Sunday. Kelly had a campout Friday night. He went to cave of the bells. Yeah, I know, caves. His favorite thing! They didn’t get home till late afternoon, and Kelsey was already at work, Maryn wasn’t home yet, so we just did some errands. I did make some preparations for Easter dinner. So maybe that counts as spreading to the weekend, right?
It was quite a different holiday for us. It used to be a week long celebration, remembering Christ’s last week, new clothes, some spring crafts, coloring eggs and a visit from the bunny with our Easter baskets.This time Kelly was out of town and Kelsey worked 39 and 1/2 hours, so I had a lot of time just on my own. It was perfect because I was teaching the YW on Sunday, so there was plenty of study time! There were no new clothes and even though I had a few crafts on my list, I didn’t get to them. There was not one trace of the Easter bunny this year either. Well, I have décor that represents the Easter bunny, so I should say he didn’t make an actual appearance. But that was perfect too. Since time was short we were able to spend it focusing on the important things. And lets face it, my kids are old! Coloring eggs went to the wayside a few years ago. We only do that if we are invited to someone else’s house with little kids. The baskets lasted longer than the eggs, but we haven’t done that in a while either. I used to find something to bring the “spiritual” part of Easter into their baskets when they were little, but now that they are older we can just keep it so much simpler. I found some books that are study guides for the names of Christ that I was excited about. And since they are older, they were excited about them too. This year, we felt lucky just to have the four of us eat dinner together on Sunday. We were disappointed not to have any family with us. Cindy and her family had a change of plans, so that left us with just the four of us but that probably worked out for the best as well, since travels and jobs made our time so short. So, even though it was different it was good. We had some time together, all four of us under one roof, can’t get much better than that.
I am extremely grateful for the atonement in my life. My testimony of the atonement is what keeps me going. I am grateful for the knowledge that there is life after death. I love that I can repent and find forgiveness for my sins. I love that that opportunity is for everyone, and especially grateful that I know it is possible for those I love. So I can have hope in the promise that families are forever. I am grateful that the atonement gives us everything we need to return to live with our Father in Heaven and to make improvements and work toward that goal here on earth-that we can become all that our Father wants us to become because of Jesus Christ. Because God loved me and created a plan for me and Jesus loved me enough to make that plan come alive.
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