Easter 2021

We celebrated Good Friday with beautiful art and Stations of the Cross at home. Scott found art from around the world - it was moving and the perfect way to 'wait' for Easter Sunday. 

Let's start with dessert, shall we? 

Yes, dessert was awesome: banana pudding cupcakes. 

Picture this: 

✨yellow cupcakes

✨hallowed out and filled with banana pudding (yum)

✨the 'frosting' was heavy cream with confectioners sugar (all whipped up til soft peaks formed) (so different than 'frosting') 

✨then a dusting of vanilla wafer cookies on top... amazing! Trust me! 

Okay, back to the morning. The girls woke up and enjoyed seeing what was in their baskets. Always so fun! 

A spring in New England can be anything really. Some days are quite warm, beautiful sunny and 70 (my favorite weather, after snow that is 😉) Easter morning was chilly but when the sun came out and it warmed up it was lovely. 

When I was a young mama I used to think that I could never find sweet things to fill a basket when they were 17 and 13 but I always do and love to bless them each year. 

Anna can't have chocolate so Munson's white chocolate for her. 

Abigail can't have dairy so non dairy 'chocolate' for her. 

And lots of other sweet things in there as well. 

There always needs to be a bit of an egg hunt. 

After eggs and baskets and all of that we participated in our regular 10:00 Mass livestream and it was wonderful. We can't wait to get back in our church one day but are grateful for the livestream. 

And then we cooked all of the last minute things. (We prepped a ton the night before) 

We decided that we wanted to serve our big Easter meal at 12:00, about an hour prep after Mass. 

This way we would still be all dressed up for our dinner and then we'd have a looooooong, cozy, afternoon and evening with all of the 'work' done. 

When it is a holiday just the four of us we always opt to eat early early early and then just enjoy relaxing the rest of the day. 

I love creating menu's and gathering recipes for brunch. 

Our brunch can't have a lot of sugar. I'm super sensitive to sugar - so lots of veggies, ham, two different kinds of homemade quiche, homemade dinner rolls, salad (and then one - but only one spectacular dessert) 

A family Easter picture around our table. (more on how I loved decorating that table back here) 

Dessert!

After dinner we were relaxing, watching The Easter Parade and doing our puzzle allllll day. It was so nice to be all done with the 'work' in the kitchen! 

The girls and I love this movie so much! 

My favorite pictures of the whole day, books, sunlight, Anna back in her cozy clothes... ahhhhh! Easter afternoon. 

Later that evening I had planned ahead to have amazing left over Easter sandwiches. I took out my bunny plates, we had egg salad, ham, swiss cheese, onion sandwiches... so so good! 

Happy Easter everyone!