Easter

Easter Sunday came a little earlier this year. I’m glad for that. Occasionally, it’s nice to have Easter prior to April.

The entire Easter weekend, Saturday and Sunday, provided some really nice, warm temperatures. It was relatively pleasant outdoors, though the wind was fairly gusty time at times throughout the day, especially on Sunday.

Religion and spiritual-wise, this is the most important day of the year. Our Lord Has Risen, Alleluia! Alleluia!

At many churches, attendance increases on this Sunday.

It’s also a day that many people take time to relax, enjoy family and have either an early dinner or evening supper together.

This was the first Easter my wife Pat experienced without her mother, Ruth, who passed away last October at the age of 97.

Ruth always looked forward to Easter, just as she did most all these type of days, because she knew some if not most of her family would be around.

She always liked to have a ham, and often she cooked it, even as she grew older.

This year, Pat and I enjoyed much of the early part of the day alone together. I’d had gone to an Easter Vigil Service Saturday night that lasted about 2½ hours.

Sunday morning we enjoyed some coffee before I went and picked up some breakfast and brought it home.

We just relaxed and took it easy most of the day. Pat had a few things she wanted to get done around the house and I did the same before we headed over to our daughter Meghan and son-inlaw Terry’s house to have supper with them and enjoy the evening along with our grandson Liam.

They invited their neighbor Peggy to join us as they often do.

Meghan fixed all the dishes to go with Terry’s ham. Whatever they come up with is always so good and they send some of it home with us as well.

It was some scrumptious! Meghan knocked herself out on a new dessert she prepared for us.

It was a delicious Easter Sunday supper. What was really nice is that Pat and I didn’t haven’t do anything but enjoy it.

After dessert, we just sat around and visited until it was time for Pat and I to head back home to Shawnee.

Just spending some time and having our family all together for Easter I think is really special. As I’ve grown a little older I’ve learned how important times like this are.