Egging them on

Ghin attacks the Easter egg ...






Oisin makes an Easter braclet for me from the eggs he collected from the Easter bunny.


Us three... as Sir Topham hat would say... chaos and confusion....

Easter 2008 came and went with some but not too much chocolate. The Easter bunny dutifully showed up and deposited his tiny sparkly parcels in the garden - Oisin, who does not like chocolate as much as a child should, found the hunt more egg-citing (badam!) than the chocolate itself. Peter got a white chcolate egg from G&B and Ghin helped him eat it - as you see in the pictures.

We didn't do much else, apart from think silently about Peter being away for the next week or so. It is weird, but we now miss him even more that we have Ghin. I think it's the small things, like the way Ghin wakes up each morning and shouts over Dad! Or the goodnight kisses. Or just watching, sharing Ghin's staggering around.

We have refixed the Skype and now are online with my parents again. They are thrilled with watching Ghin today just messing about. As i cleaned the kitchen while my mom virtually baby sat it made me miss THEM even more. It seemed almost cruel having her there, interracting and not being able to touch her. Ghin even went up to the screen and went Dat! to it, as he does when he gives you something. But something IS better than nothing. I have spent the morning with Oisin away at the farm just channel surfing when i should be doing the budget. Sigh. I have managed to clean up the kitchen though - it's a constant thing isn't it, like depositing sand on a beach, this cleaning the house... i've also noticed that for some reason, if it is at all possible i've gotten used to cleaning the house. I never leave the place messy now before we go to bed. The sink is emptied and the living room straightened out before we go down for the night. Some habits are good to form. I've also become more efficient at washing up, doing the oven, the laundry, the bathroom, etc, etc. Efficient or just used to it? And all the time i think about things - about offering these actions as acts of love. It has made all the difference.