birth-renewal-death by chocolate

happy easter.

It's been so much fun having the kids be of the age that we can share some holiday traditions and ritual - easter is such a great holiday since it's easy for kids to relate to the springtime renewal by looking at the buds on the trees, the beautiful crocuses coming up (though Liam told me he didn't think they were pretty), and birds nests with eggs in them. After explaining our pagan traditions around easter, Liam wanted to go to the garden store to buy some seeds and plants. It was too cute.

We had a lovely morning with the kids. I painstakingly chose "healthy" easter treats for an easter basket for them - I put a granola mix in some eggs and hid those, along with the eggs we all painted on Thursday. They had fun finding the eggs and were thrilled to get a Lara bar in their baskets, as well. Then, Chris said, "look under the pillow on the sofa." and Liam reached under and pulled out a gigantic chocolate easter bunny. Of course, Chris was videotaping all of this and caught my disdain on tape. (But last week when I took Liam to the doctor and he had to have his blood drawn - as he was screaming, I promised him a treat - it quieted him down - why have I resorted to bribes? and then took him to the worse possible Bakery - a very upscale place where they only thing he wanted was a $7 chocolate fudge mocha cupcake. Maybe I was paying penance with their hippy easter baskets.)

But now I'm at school. It was kind of creepy when I walked by a large church adjacent to Cambridge Common. They have a large, historic graveyard next to the church, and there were hundreds of plastic easter eggs "hidden" by the gravestones - but, I guess it is all about life and death.

Chris thought my bunny puppet was kind of creepy (the easter bunny, I told Liam), and I thought his scary cat was, too, - but we had a blast at MIT last Friday at a puppet making workshop. Afterwards, we headed to Margot's for dinner - she's been a great friend this year. She's a superior court judge, and her husband is also a lawyer who was ran a big part of Dukakis'campaign - they were so sweet having the kids over to their gorgeous apartment. They are so down to earth, but when Margot was surprised that Kalian was potty trained I launched into all of the gritty details, but then realized they probably weren't that interested in the poop talk, but I had already dug myself in pretty deep and didn't know how to get out!

:( Liam just called because he was sad that about my leaving and didn't say good-bye - though he did say it but only after my prompting - he has a hard time with other people's transitions, too....an evolving journey of life/death/coming/going