Ah, the delights of plotting surprises for the kids for Easter morning! Well, for Ariel at least. Gage is still young enough we could do everything in front of him and he’d still be surprised in the morning. Babies are so easy sometimes.

It rained hard this morning, so we’re a little worried that we’ll have to hide plastic eggs instead of the real ones Ariel and I dyed yesterday. I had turned off the sprinklers already, explaining to Ariel that we didn’t want them to turn on and scare the Easter Bunny away.

Tonight we’ll be putting the candy in the baskets. I think we will unfortunately have to keep the candies either wrapped or in Ziploc bags - this place has a major ant problem and any food left out rather quickly gets a trail of ants to it.

Probably the hardest part for me will be getting up so much earlier than normal so I can shower and help hide the eggs before we get Ariel up. We have to have time to do all this before Mass because we’re meeting my mother there and then going to her house for a family get-together. Then it’s dinner at my in-laws’.

Ariel’s plotting too. She keeps telling me she’s going to catch the Easter Bunny and pet him.