The Crowell Family Site

We’ve put up some Easter Pictures of the kiddos in their finery for you to enjoy. Just look in the gallery..and yes, we forgot to take some pictures of Lance and I, but come on..we know who you REALLY want to see! Haha!

Thankfully Caleb’s strep throat wasn’t contagious by this morning, so we were able to go to the early service and worship together as a family.

 Caleb did have to stay indoors on Saturday to let his Strep throat medicine do the trick, and today the weather was cruddy, therefore no easter egg hunt, but that’s ok. They’ll have plenty of years for that.
Instead we got to emphasize the REAL reason for Easter..Christ’s death and resurrection 3 days later. We were given a couple of very good children’s books for this purpose, plus we read the gospel of Luke’s account out of the children’s bible.

And while they were given Easter baskets, we told them they were from us and other family. I can find a reason to actually talk about Santa Clause (or Saint Nicholaus as we call him) for Christmas. And we keep our Advent celebration separate from the secular Christmas festivities anyway.

But Lance and I find no rythme or reason to make believe in the Easter bunny, so we don’t. It’s not that we go out of our way to say there isn’t one..we just haven’t brought the fellow up, and the kids haven’t asked, so we’re good  for the time being. (at least til next year rolls around!)

And now it’s back to the day to day activities..although I pray that my family will always carry the joy and message of Resurrection Day in their hearts year round.

Filed under: The Blogs on April 12th, 2009