EASTER!

He is risen, or so many believe..I think, Mothers especially, mark the years with holiday memories. You know,1961,that was the year that we didn't find the egg under the bathroom plunger and it began to smell in May. Or 1959, the year that Danette was born on Easter Monday. When we went to church on Easter I had nothing that fit so I wore my bathrobe under my coat. There were Easter egg hunts at parks, I have a pic of Pascha 1984 with a basket with ET in it. Francis is in the pic too. We lived in an apartment then....no eggs hidden in the yard. One year I made matching outfits for Francis and Danette and the picture shows Gardner in a white shirt, white tennis shoes and a tie, and Patty is all dressed up in a two piece suit. She must have been about 13. Angela, Danette's girl, wears a wide brim hat at the church in Clear Lake where she and Pascha hunted eggs in 1985, Another Easter,Francis died on Good Friday. I sat on a bench outside the hospital in the rain and said to God, "OK." and when I went into the building they were paging me. I held Francis in my arms and shushed him to death. Not too many Mothers get to hold them first and last in life, if that's something to brag about. Anyway, his memorial was on Easter Sunday at the little Clear Lake Church. I rode to Spokane with Patty and Pascha and Sydney went by train with the huge bunny that took up a seat of its own. Sydney brought that bunny from Great Falls for Francis. Francis was 27 years old and we gave him a teddy bear?
So Easter 2010....That was the year that we went to too much church. We started out at St. Joseph's for the last supper rites,went Blessed Sacrament for Good Friday and over to Holy Family for the Easter vigil.. The ceremony at Holy Family started at 9pm and we didn't get home till almost midnight. Pascha and Sienna left early, although she was very,very good for the long service. I will say, 2010..that's the year that Stephen's family and Pascha and Sienna came home for Easter. We went out to eat at Golden Corral, the Prospectors, and more. I never been so full of food in all my life....what a celebration of good times! Sienna got two easter baskets, the bigger kids went on a shopping spree and egg hunts in our back yard with money in the eggs and Buford got a brown bunny to chew up. Today, Easter, Sydney is baking a ham and the trimmings and our friends Kathy and Cadet will be eating with us and I think that is the last of the feast.
Now, tomorrow when the bunnies, ducks, geese and eggs and candles are put in their box in the basement.....Will there be another Easter? Should I put a note in the box or is that creating scenarios? Seems like a lot of things might be the last, but then they might just be the year that Mom had no hair and wore those silly hats everywhere we went.
I'm beginning to feel the radiation. Everything thing is an effort now. Just laying around seems harder. So I will probably be prone for the next month....then we'll see, I'm glad Easter came before I got too tired. 2010 Will go done in our family as the best ever Easter and yes I believe he rose from dead!