Easter is a wonderful holiday! What a wonderful thing to celebrate – the Atonement and Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
But I’ve never been too thrilled about the idea of the Easter Bunny bringing things. Now don’t get me wrong, I love chocolate just as much as any other normal woman out there, and love any excuse to buy it. But, a rabbit bringing treats – I don’t get it!!!
The Easter Bunny doesn’t visit our house. On Easter Sunday my family woke up to find a display up high on the piano (away from little fingers of course!).
There were pictures of the resurrected Christ and bowls of Easter treats.
Eggs symbolize “new life” and so does “resurrection”.
Completely perfect for our family!
And now an Easter picture of my reverent daughters!!!Happy Easter!
This is how Easter treats happen at my house: I provide ingredients and a recipe and inform my girls that they get to make Easter treats for the family! Isn’t that great?
And they get all excited!!!
Okay, I’m not completely lazy – I did have an important thing to do:
I was over at the new house, drawing my kitchen cabinets on the plywood, to see if what I’d designed on paper would actually fit in the space my guy provided for the kitchen.
Here’s my design on paper. It was out by about two inches on one wall. See, that’s what I needed to know before I start getting quotes! So my time was well spent!
As I walked in the door, the girls said “We just finished the nests! Come and see them!”
Great work girls – they look delicious!!!
I’m happy, they’re happy, and we have some yummy treats, so dad is definitely happy!!!
And if you want to make your own, bring the syrup and sugar to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the peanut butter and then the rice krispies. Form into nests and decorate with jellybeans.
And that’s how Easter treats are made at my house!!!
I went to a stage production of “My Fair Lady” last night (fabulous by the way). Now if I could just get ‘I could have danced all night . . .’ out of my head!
Anyway, it was late when we got home, but of course I went to the fridge because I knew there was this dessert left over from Sunday dinner, and it was calling to me! When you get to the picture, you’ll see it there in the top left. I had pinned this dessert to one of my Pinterest boards, and actually made it. And yes, it was very delicious, although I found out that my guy doesn’t really like pistachio pudding (that would explain why there were leftovers!) Next time I’ll make it with lemon pudding instead. You can check it out here at Brown Paper Packages if you want to make it yourself.
Wow! My fridge looks pretty stocked right now – I must have gone grocery shopping recently! By the way, I love the layout of this fridge. It even has a drawer below those two crisper bins at the bottom – it’s a really shallow drawer but wide and fits a ton of things – like the cheese and cold cuts, butter waiting to be used, apples, pies (if I had them) etc. And it’s the perfect height for perusing things because the freezer is on the bottom. Oh, and it has double doors – I like to think that’s more energy efficient as I don’t have to open the whole fridge to grab the milk out of the door!
Anyway . . .
. . . when I opened the fridge (remember, I heard my name being called) I saw these little nests that definitely weren’t there earlier in the evening. I thought it was pretty cute (which is why I snapped a picture).
Lee had made them in Home Ec. that day and went about making some that evening. This morning I asked her for the recipe and she tapped her head and said, “It’s all in here.”
– Butter (she couldn’t remember how much, which would explain the plate of extra melted butter sitting on my counter when I got home!)
– 2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
– 1 cup long coconut
– 1 cup Rice Krispies
So basically you’re just making Rice Krispy Squares and shaping them into nests. These seemed extra gooey though, which is why they’re so tasty – that and the coconut!!!
Then she spread a little chocolate sauce on top and the eggs. This recipe will make about 15 nests.
So then I had the dilemma of eating the leftover dessert, or eating a nest. What would you do? Have both? I decided to go with the leftover dessert that I had made. I thought Lee might want to be around to see us enjoy her nests (she was sound asleep).
So . . . I haven’t actually tasted them, but they look good and anything with coconut in it will be delicious!!!
Click here to see the nests we made last year – and when I say “we” I mean my girls!
The stores would have us believe that Easter is all about the Easter Bunny and gifts and chocolate. But it really isn’t. It’s all about the atonement, crucifiction and resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Which is why I like to include a picture of my Savior in my little corner of Easter decorating.
This teal frame is the other side of my Framed Shamrock. The picture is ancient but it matched the frame nicely and was the perfect size. It actually came from one of my grandma’s old Family Home Evening manuals from 1976, when Spencer W. Kimball was the prophet (do you remember when a new FHE manual would come out every year or am I really dating myself here?). My parents were downsizing to move into an apartment and gave me some of her old manuals and that’s how I found my perfect picture for this year.
I love the little Willow Tree angel gazing up at the picture.
All I did to decorate this year was add a few pastel flowers. It’s so refreshing to have some springy colours around, after all the dullness of winter.
Oh, we must not forget the chocolate!!! We love Easter treats too – they just don’t come from an Easter Bunny. Luckily my baby hasn’t noticed the treats in the cupboard yet!
Okay, these are my stair railings on my plywood stairs – strangely resembling little Easter Egg trees, paint buckets and pop bottles! Anything to keep small people away from the edges.
Those are the spindles there on the right – somehow they just have to get into formation in the grooves of the banister!
So Kat spent awhile evenly spacing the eggs and spreading out the colours. But as soon as Mac woke up and found egg trees, Kat’s work was destroyed. Now they’re in different arrangements all the time. Who knew stair railings could be so much fun!
(I haven’t posted any house progress pictures lately because no progress is being made! The less than flattering picture above is to remind you that we are still living in a construction zone. But even amidst construction, or lack of, I can still have my corners of prettiness – for my sanity!)
Here’s another Easter corner in the house – I just love this picture of the Salt Lake City Temple!
This magnificent building holds an especially dear place in my heart because I was married here! This is where I was married, and sealed eternally to my sweet guy. It is not a “til death do you part” kind of marriage, but an eternal one – meaning that we truly will be together forever. And our children are sealed to us forever too. Of course they’ll leave us someday and cleave unto their own spouses, but we’re still bound together into the eternities. Isn’t that a glorious plan of our loving Heavenly Father? Families really can be together forever! I find such joy and comfort in knowing this.
In this egg is a carving of our Savior in the Garden of Gethsemane, just before He was betrayed, arrested and crucified. This is where he truly suffered the most as he atoned for all our sins.
I love the words to the hymn “Reverently and Meekly Now” because it’s written in the first person – as if the Savior is talking to us. Verses one and four are my favourites:
Rev’rently and meekly now, let thy head most humbly bow.
Think of me, thou ransomed one; think what I for thee have done.
With my blood that dripped like rain, sweat in agony of pain,
With my body on the tree I have ransomed even thee.
At the throne I intercede; for thee ever do I plead.
I have loved thee as a thy friend, with a love that cannot end.
Be obedient, I implore, prayerful, watchful, evermore,
And be constant unto me, that thy Savior I may be.
There were pictures of the resurrected Christ and bowls of Easter treats.
Eggs symbolize “new life” and so does “resurrection”.
Completely perfect for our family!
Happy Easter!
