Easter

I think in a lot of ways I prefer Easter to Christmas. Yes it is a more reflective celebration, but ultimately joyous on Resurrection Sunday. It is the heart and hope of our faith. We worshipped on both Friday and Sunday with our church family which was beautiful. I love the slower pace of it for us as it doesn't have the frantic build-up of Christmas, just lots of getting together with people we love, laughing and eating (especially eating), and the long weekend that is so precious to those that usually have to head out the door on a Friday and Monday.

I think it has something to do with the time of year. This is ironic as we would appear to celebrate Easter at the wrong time of year, but I think it works well with the intimacy of the celebration. Days are slightly colder and daylight saving comes to an end so we instinctively draw closer as the nights are now darker. Unfortunately it was still too warm for us to light the first fire of the season, but that will keep.

This wonderful and leisurely weekend has been interspersed with Christian basically living up at school perfecting his robot programming skills. That boy is dedicated. He is so happy creating code and then watching it translate to action. Sam not so keen but is up there being a grunt worker - resetting the field over and over again. We are starting to count down the sleeps until we go.