Easter

April kicked off with a bang when Jack for his first infusion of zolendronic acid. This medication differs from the one Jack has been receiving since he was three months old in that each infusion lasts only about 1 hour from start to finish.

Compared with the three-day four-hour infusions that have become normal for us, this was a piece of cake. Not to mention, he only receives them twice a year (as opposed to the 3 times a year schedule of pamidronate he was on). Yay for Jack (and his very busy mother, too)!

Next up was my birthday-a chocolate affair, naturally. Not pictured: Tim (taking the picture), Anna (who, as I remember, napped through the whole celebration). My gift was season tickets to our local Shakespeare Festival-a summer favorite for me.

My loved ones provided a pizza dinner and I somehow got away with a nap. What more could a girl ask for?

Next up was Anna’s birthday party. We couldn’t very we’ll schedule it during spring break when many friends were out of town. So the day after my birthday, we carted all these awesome kids off for an escape room adventure, then back to our house for food and games.

I enjoyed seeing that Anna’s friend groups are varied-that she is anything BUT clique-ish. I also loved to watch these kids, who knew each other but didn’t really know each other get along so fabulously.

They ate us out of house and home and made a ton of noise downstairs. Thank heaven for that bonus room we added last year so we weren’t relegated to our bedrooms during the party.

I signed Tim up to chaperone Lily’s choir trip. He had the day off (it was Good Friday) and he had nothing better to do (ha!) so Lily had the pleasure of having her dad take her phone away at bedtime at the hotel. But she also had her dad there to buy her meals and the cold medicine she so desperately needed to survive the trip.

When she got back we took her to the doctor and she was diagnosed with a double ear infection. Yikes.

While they were gone we dyed Easter eggs. We probably did some other stuff, but since I neither have pictures to document it nor the memory to recall any details from over a month ago, this will do.

Our Easter egg hunt this year bucked tradition by happening inside the house. Owing to the fact that our yard was destroyed by our remodel and our patio and landscaping currently non-existent, we figured the interior of our abode a more hospitable location.

As usual, we hid their baskets in plain sight (meaning not behind closed doors) and we still managed to stump Lily. She clocked in at about 10 minutes of searching before finding hers.

The eggs were not quite so elusive. They were everywhere-so that even Jack could feel success in his efforts. It never ceases to amaze me how a simple Easter egg hunt never gets old for kids. Like ever.

Jack started swimming lessons, I taught Joy School once or twice, and Rachel won second place in the soccer ball throw (discus) in the Elementary City Track Meet.

Not an all-inclusive list-but that pretty much sums up our April.