SIXTEEN

My mom and John came to visit for Easter. First stop is always Babes Chicken. 

2025 week sixteen 

Friday morning breakfast at Eataly. 

Saturday morning visit to Grapevine. 

Looking like an absolute preteen. 

Ice cream at Handels. 

“Mama is going to be so mad when she sees how big my ice cream is!”

Easter baskets with clues to find part 2. 

 After early morning Easter Mass. 

Part 2 was a croquet set. The kids spent all afternoon and evening playing countless games of croquet. 

One of the Alice in Wonderland themed riddles to find the croquet set. 

V got a book from Grandma as an early birthday present and she and Theo couldn’t put it down. 

Prepared for the egg hunt and subsequent confetti egg battle. 

Making my annual Easter egg pie. Torta pasqualina. 

Theo caught to beefy spiny lizards in our ivy. 

This bulb blooms a few random times a year. It was in full bloom for Easter.

 

Easter dinner. We had cold ham, roasted chicken, grilled lamb chops, Easter Egg pie, salad from the garden, collard green "beans" (the matured seed pods of a collard plant gone to seed, tastes like broccoli mixed with green beans), deviled eggs, sourdough challah, roasted potatoes, and pickles and sauerkraut. For dessert we had an Angel Food Cake with berries and cream. 

Close up on all the garden veggies. 

Quotes:

V was trying to quietly tell me about a note she received from a boy. Theo- "You got a love note?!"

V- "Not really..."

Me trying to change the subject and help her out- "I got a love note from Papa today."

Theo- "What!? I'm the ONLY one who's not getting love notes!"

Me- "Theo, tell me something you love about me." Fully expecting to get some toilet humor fake compliment, like I have the best toots or I'm really "Stazzy."

Theo- "I love your brown hair."

Me- "What? Really?"

Theo- "It's so pretty and dark brown. In the sun it looks like hazelnuts."

A second grader at school while I'm helping him into his car- "Can I eat you alive?"

Me- "I don't think so. You don't even have any salt."

Boy- "Yes I do in my backpack. But I did forget my knife."

Me- "Some other time then..."