BUSY EASTER WEEK

I live a very busy life, and am seldom bored, but this week was an exceptionally jam packed week, so here we go........

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I was going to show my Easter decorations for Show & Tell but since we didn't have it Friday and Easter is now over I am only showing this to show the little girl & boy rabbit egg toppers. This is one of the many items I made and sold in our little Craft Store and I wanted to show them as some of you crafters and mothers might want to make some for next Easter.

This being Easter week our church scheduled Intercessory Prayer every day of the week at various hours. Monday at noon, Tuesday at 7 pm, Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursday at 8 am. Then Friday our Pastor had a Good Friday service at noon. I attended all the scheduled prayer times and Mickey & I both were able to attend the Good Friday service because he did not have to work. Added to this, the Intercessory Prayer group that we belong to met, on the spur of the moment, at 6:30 pm Saturday night at an empty building in a shopping center that we are looking at for A 24 Hour House Of Prayer. I'll be writing more, at a later date, about this exciting thing that God is doing!!!! We were privileged to be asked to join this small group on January 26th and so blessed and excited to be involved.
I can't remember when St. Patrick's Day and Easter were in the same time frame!!! Our good friends, Jack & Mary, had 11 of us over for the traditional Corn Beef and Cabbage dinner on Monday, the 17th, St. Patty's Day. This is a group of Christian friends from their church but we are often included :o) Mary topped it off with her delicious home made apple pies. Thank you Jack & Mary for being such special friends.
On Thursday, after the 8 am prayer time and a 9:30 hair cut appointment, I picked up a large supreme and medium cheese pizza and took it to my dear friend, Kahri, to visit her and her 4 children. Kahri is a very special friend from the church we use to attend and the one who is responsible for me getting a blog. Thank you Kahri!!!!!

Kahri and 3 of the children; Brittany age 12, Emily age 6 and Ethan age 13 months. Kaedra was sleeping when I arrived and will join us later. Kahri is a Home School Mom and a true woman of FAITH. I put that in caps because her faith is BIG!!!!!! Here is the link to Kahri's blog, Our Pecuilar Life.


After eating we moved to the living room and Kaedra joined us: left to right, Kaedra age 3, Brittany, Ethan, Kahri, & Emily. Kaedra is truly our miracle child and if you have not read her story please do so here. "They" said Kaedra would never live and she spent the first 11 months of her life in the Children's ICU of the hospital. I told you Kahri and her husband, Michael, are people of GREAT FAITH.



Kahri & I. One of those precious friendships that transends age. We had a wonderful 2 1/2 hour visit!!!! We had a lot of catching up to do.

We had a WONDERFUL Easter Service. I have begun to go to the Intercessory Prayer room, instead of our Sunday School Class, before our 2nd service. Mickey is still attending the Sunday School Class. Our Pastor's message was ARE YOU LIVING AS AN ATHEIST? Not your typical Easter morning message but a very needed one. I invite you to listen to it via the link at the top of my side bar in the future when it will be added.
After church we went to our oldest daughter, Suzette and Dave's for a wonderful Easter dinner
Here is the table. Smoked spiral ham, mashed potato's, macaroni and cheese, fresh fruit, and not on the table yet, green bean casserole and rolls. I made the cake and got the recipe from Pea's Corner. It is an angel food cake with the top cut out and the core tunneled out and filled with a chocolate pudding mixture. Then you put the top back on and ice with cool whip. The only difference, I topped mine with crumbled Heath Bar instead of colored sprinkles because our family loves chocolate!!!! Thanks for the recipe Pea it was a BIG hit!!!!

I am showing this separate picture of the Macaroni & Cheese because our, just turned 13 year old, granddaughter, Oksana, said she wanted to bring a dish for Easter this year and choose this from scratch recipe. It was delicious and we were so proud of her for 1) offering to do so and 2) having it turn out just perfect. I had given Oksana a cookbook for her birthday last month and she has been doing quite a bit of cooking for their family. We're proud of you, Oksana.

Added to this very busy week is we were, and are, also painting a living room and dining area wall and redoing the wall paper and paint in the kitchen!!!!!! That will be a separate post in a few days. For those of you who were concerned because I was so quiet last week, only 2 posts!!!!, this busy week is why.