Believers or Fools?

Happy April Fools Day!  Although it is April 1st, there are no pranks planned in this household. Rather today is the eve of Good Friday, which means a flurry of planning, and baking and cooking has begun!  

It's been an extra special week.  My brother is "home" visiting from Switzerland, it was my Dad's 60th birthday on Saturday, and both older girls are home from school for March Break.  We had an extra busy day on Monday, as I took the girls into the city to do a little shopping and took in a movie before going out to dinner with the family to celebrate my Dad's birthday.  

We saw the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks (or the Chickmunks as they are known in our house) the Squeakuel.  It was a very cute, funny movie that even Anya seemed to enjoy!  It was Anya's first movie in a theatre.  I was very impressed on how well it went.  Then we joined up with my parents and my brother and his girlfriend and headed off to the restaurant.

We ate dinner at the Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse.  Expensive, but a great evening of food entertainment.  The girls really liked watching the chef flip, cut and cook our food right there in front of us.  It seemed to make a great memory for all of us to celebrate such a special day!

Tuesday I decided to tackle making homemade perogies!  Wow, what an undertaking.  I think they'll be delicious for all the work it took to make them.  Seeing as I'm supposed to be more careful about what I eat, I've decided that I can cheat on my "diet" once in awhile if I have to put in the effort to make things from scratch.  It's so easy to just go and buy things in the store, without ever reading the label to see what's actually in them.  This way I know what's going into them, get a bit of a cooking workout, and hopefully a plateful of delicious food at the end!

This weekend is Easter.  I'm looking forward to spending time with my family, doing some crafts, having some fun, and eating good food.  We have the eggs all ready to be coloured, small gifts and chocolates to be made into a scavenger hunt, and the joy of knowing that our Savior died for us, and is preparing a place at His table, in His house just for us.

How will you celebrate Easter?  Is it just a holiday of bunnies and chocolates?  Or is there something deeper?  Take a little time this weekend and do something special.