Easter 2009 Festivities

What a great Easter weekend we had! I got to start my weekend with Friday off for Good Friday. I went and took care of making my dream dinners then headed to pick up mom to celebrate Easter with her. Our new thing with the exception of Christmas is that for holiday's we will spend the day before or the couple of days before with our families then the actual holiday will be just the 3 of us. This is working out so well and things are so stress free! This way, Logan gets to not be so overwhelmed on the actual holiday and he can enjoy it. So, first up was my mom. I picked her up after dream dinners on Friday. We had some errands to run and we took her with us. We had planned to make dinner but decided on a late lunch instead. We went out for lunch then went back to our house so that she could give Logan his Easter basket and watch him find a few eggs. We took her home later that evening. On Saturday, Logan had a soccer game and the Easter bunny was going to be at the YMCA before the game. We left early and went to the Y and let him take a picture with the Easter bunny. He was so funny he just jumped right up and sat on his lap and said "monkies" (instead of cheese) when his picture was taken. Logan had his soccer game then we headed over to Karen' s(Marc's mom) for Easter there. We had some lunch and Logan did another egg hunt and Karen gave him a Easter Basket. We headed home so that we could get Logan ready for bed cause the Easter bunny had to do it's thing :). Logan went to bed and Marc and I got to relax and stay up a little bit together which is something that we rarely get to do. We put the basket and all his stuff that would not fit in the basket like his skateboard and hot wheels sets (hopefully will have pictures soon) beside the basket. It looked like Christmas in the living room. Marc then hid the eggs in the house because we knew there would be snow in the morning. That morning Logan woke us up at 7:30 am (which is really early for him) saying "come on come on the Easter bunny came", so we had to run downstairs. Marc went first and grabbed the camera so he could get Logan's expression when he made it down the stairs. Logan had so much fun with all his new toys and hunting eggs AGAIN. We had planned on going to the Sky Sox game that day and they were going to have a huge easter egg hunt but with all the snow it was cancelled. They will postpone for another day so that will be good. We made lunch (ham, mashed potatos, green beans, deviled eggs, and rolls). We all then took a nap! After the nap we took Logan outside to play in t e snow. It was a weird snow. The snowballs were really hard. Over all we had a FANTASTIC family weekend and none of us are tired since we spread it out a little :)

My Time With Mom

Ok so I dreaded this in a past post, but my time with my mom was not as nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It started on Saturday morning. Logan and I went and picked her up and got her in the car. Kylie had already brought me all of her stuff so that was easy! We went to Target and she actually did fine. She held on to the cart as we shopped. Of course she had to buy Logan a toy. So she was excited and happy to do that, well needless to say they both were :) After we finished at Target we went to the movies to see Monsters vs Aliens. They both did really well in the movie. I got a little upset cause mom accidentally dumped all of the popcorn out on the floor, but it was not her fault, I gave it to her in the left hand which since the stroke she can not feel that well. After the movies we went and had lunch then headed home. I put Logan down for a nap with Marc then me and mom went to Ross and TJ Maxx. Everything went smooth there too! I thought the day would be alot worse with mom and a potty training toddler but it went rather smooth! The next day was the worst day of all of them. I woke mom up and decided to give her a shower. I have a really high spa bathtub and I knew this was gonna be a challenge (I dont know why I did not think to put her in Logan's tub). She took a shower and I went to get her out and she could not get her left leg out of the shower. She ended up getting tired and straddling the shower and sitting down. I could not get her up for anything. It was the hardest thing ever. I just stood there and cried. She was not listening to me. I think that she may have had a stroke that morning. I ended up pulling her onto the floor and sliding her into the bigger part of the bathroom so that she could get her balance and stand up. Finally after 1 1/2 hours, she got up and I was able to get her dressed. I was so frustrated and got a little mad but I think that I handled it pretty darn well. I took her to get a haircut and lunch then headed home so that everyone could take a nap before dinner time. We made dinner that night and had a good evening. Monday was the best day of all of them. I decided to stay at home from work and to spend time with mom. We woke up and I took her to lunch at Joe's Crab Shack then we went to the mall and walked around. Well, mom was "pushed" arounf hahahah. We had a really good time together and no hassles that day whatsoever. We had takeout that night for dinner and go ready for the next day. Tuesday she stayed with Marc then we would have dinner after I got home from work. Wed was the same deal then after dinner I took her home because Kylie came home that night. I think that it went really well and I am so glad I got to spend time with her.