Easter itself was pretty laid back for us but the weekend was full of a lot of little stuff.

• On Saturday I took all 3 girls over to the hairdresser for some seriously long overdue haircuts. We walked in and within 30 minutes the 3 of them were back out of there looking polished. What were the odds that none of the 3 hair stylists working on Saturday would have a client at the very moment we walked in? I should have bought a lottery ticket.
• I dropped the girls at home and took off with my son, the lone boy in the family, to go shopping for Easter basket stuff. Procrastinate much? Sure makes the choices easier. There is one major department store in the city we shop in that has fallen by the wayside in the shadows of two of its major competitors. It’s the one I go to for all of my hard-to-find items because no one shops there anymore. I walked out of there with all of my goods for Sunday morning within 20 minutes of arriving - plenty of candy in stock, no crowds, no lines at the checkout. Sweet.
• Took my son out to dinner just him and I. We never get to do anything sans his sisters so I wanted to make sure we had some fun. I let him choose the restaurant and we sat down, had some good conversation and some delicious burgers and fries (not fast food - real thick, juicy burgers and fries with the skin still on). It was awesome. And something I plan on doing a lot more of in the near future. Before it’s too late. And he’s a teenager. And all I’m good for is cash and a ride somewhere.
• Saturday night you would have found me staying up until the wee hours assembling Easter baskets by myself, hiding eggs on my own and wrapping birthday presents I purchased earlier in the day for my youngest daughter (her birthday was Sunday in addition to Easter). Usually my husband and I do these things together but he was in bed sick - a sickness of his own making - and to say I felt a tad resentful would not even begin to cover what I was feeling. But that is another post for another day.
• Easter morning the kids let me sleep until almost 8am. They had already started hunting for eggs - they couldn’t be bothered to wait for me to drag my sorry ass out of bed. Ahh how I long for youthful enthusiasm. The egg hunt was topped off by a breakfast of champions - M&M’s, Kisses, Reese’s, Milky Way, Peeps, etc.
• The rest of the day was pretty casual. There was no visiting the relatives - they are all too sick or far away. No Easter dinner since my husband was out of commission for the entire weekend and my kids don’t like most of the traditional dinner fixings anyway. I know - I allowed them to be fussy and now I’m paying the price.
• My stepdaughter came over later in the afternoon with her son. My husband finally managed to drag himself out of bed and we celebrated my daughter’s 5th birthday complete with cake, ice cream (yeah more sugar *sob*), a stuffed cat with its own carrying case and more Littlest Pet Shoptoys.
• My husband spent the rest of the night trying to make up for the weekend but it was too little too late.

How was your weekend?