So, besides being baptized and such…

It’s also Easter…

And, Lorelei’s birthday. (See, now wouldn’t it be fun to just throw in Aurora’s birth day in there, too? Wouldn’t it?!)

The plan has kind of … deviated. I had finally settled on having a joint party for Aurora and Lorelei this year – mid may. I wanted to be able to do something outside without WONDERING if the weather would be freezing or sunny (literally) and I wanted people to be able to see the baby…so it seemed perfect. I could do a cake and homemade ice cream and cookies and MAYBE even throw in a cook out? The kids could play in the huge yard at my parents’ house (they live more centrally to anyone we’d invite) and ride around on the vast amount of riding toddler toys we have and the adults could google at the baby and fight over her.

For L’s actual birthday, I planned on making her homemade fruit salad (since fruit IS her favorite) and going to church, doing an egg hunt and maybe dinner with each of our (Steven and mine) parents one of the weekend nights. I made an unofficial announcement on my blog about having decided to just postpone the party until May, and all was set.

It was going to be relaxing and…ours.

But, things have changed.

Instead of making Lorelei the blueberry Kashi waffles with bananas and maple syrup that she loves, we’ll be rushing off to the Church breakfast with sticky un-wholesome cinnamon buns and gooey icing. And, then I’ll be baptized. Then, we’ll go to Mimi’s and have a lovely egg hunt. And, because we have fruit salad in the fridge which she’s already gotten tired of…I’ll bake another cake (another birthday dinner has been scheduled for Saturday evening…as well as another egg hunt). Then we’ll have supper with whomever from my Dad’s side of the family shows up, and that’ll be that. Saturday’s schedule looks a lot like Sunday, but with things jumbled around a little differently and minus the baptism and with a different set of people.

It won’t be relaxing, but it’ll be fun.

Welcome back!