Happy Easter! He is Risen!

 Easter Sunday!

This is arguably the most important celebration of the year for Christians as we celebrate Jesus Christ overcoming death, rising, and leaving the tomb.

We are saved from eternal separation from God through Jesus's willingness to die on the cross for our sins.

Unfortunately for me, I am sick so am not going to church today. Most of the kids have gone. Kevin is sick too so he is in bed. 

It is just a cold but my asthma loves to flare up enthusiastically when I am sick, so I am taking it very easily.

The daily temps have been up and down a lot. Over the last week, we have had high temps in the 80s, and high temps in the low 40s. This pic is (if memory serves me) during a cold day, but we have this warm spot on our deck and obviously a bunch of the kids decided to go and hang out together.

I finished a 1000 piece puzzle. 

Rose wanted to do a "prank" for April Fool's Day, so she got up early and put plushies everywhere. There were plushies on sofas and chairs. It was very cute.

I did a science experiment with the kids. We put all these jars out. Most had water in them. One was empty, and one was full of oil. Every jar had the identical amount of liquid (except for the 'air' one). We then put four ice cubes in each jar and measured how long it took for the ice cubes to melt. It was fun and I was surprised. The jar with plain water at room temperature took like 20 minutes to melt. The jar with water mixed with sugar took closer to an hour. Amazing that sugar made such a difference but it did.

On Thursday, I took the younger three kids to the local Air Force Museum and we watched an IMAX movie called Wild Ohio, which was about Ohio and its wonders of nature. It was very good. For such a flat, relatively boring state, we have a lot of gorgeous areas.

After the movie, we started walking around the AF Museum which is HUGE. And I started getting really tired. I was thinking, girl, you are not in good shape!

The next morning I woke up sick so Ok, that is why I was so tired.

I have been sleeping a lot the last few days. It is nice having older kids as they don't require so much care as when the house was full of babies and toddlers, though I adore those ages too.

Happy Easter!