Happy Easter

So, in a rare and rather bold move on my part, I (Keith) am taking the helm for the "Easter Edition" of our blog. If I get much fan mail, I will consider furthering my blogging career.

It was great fun this year now that Koen is old enough to take part in the many strange Easter traditions we oddly embrace here. We started Easter off at our Church and had lunch with Grammi at a local Cafe, one of the few restaurants I have ever been at that actually serve Liver and Onions. In an excellent move on the Cafe's part, I was over-joyed to see that Liver and Onions were no longer offered (which made Grammi rather sad as this fine dish is one of her stand in favorites).


Yesterday I got home to find Koen in the kitchen with Mom dying eggs. He was so proud, wearing his huge plastic apron, standing on his stool watching the eggs that he put in the colored water soak. He was able to enjoy the fruit of his labors today for a snack.

(don't worry, we took the shell off for him)

He is still a bit too young to grasp the reason for this holiday that we strangely celebrate with colored eggs and rabbits, but we pray that its significance will make an eternal impact in his life. Here is an awesome article if you desire to read a bit more on the Resurrection (I'll give you a little preview):

BODY COUNT:
Is there evidence Jesus was resurrected?

Atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in 1925, “I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my own ego will survive.”¹ Well, that’s cheerful. Russell clearly bordered on the morose, but we’ve all wondered, with perhaps more optimism, what will happen to us when we die.

If life after death is not an option, then Russell is right; our bodies will rot and nothing else of us will survive. No consciousness. No happiness. No hope. And, several decades of existentialist window dressing aside, what that really means is an accidental world with no ultimate meaning.

What makes Jesus unique among religious leaders and among great leaders in general, is his relationship with death. Leaders have met with all manner of untimely deaths—assassination, self-inflicted death, accidental death before the world was ready for them to go. But death sought and found them nonetheless. What is not unique about Jesus is that his enemies killed him; what is unprecedented, if the Gospels are to be believed, is that he foretold how and when it would happen and resigned himself to it (actually chose it), stating that death had no power over him. ...read more here...

Right before bed we enjoyed a little cupcake eating entertainment from our little goof-ball.


Hope you all had an awesome Easter!