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Our Easter holidays consisted of: chocolate eggs, straw hats, more chocolate eggs, decorating a bonnet, painting giant eggs, easter cupcakes and making and decorating easter egg mobiles...

I hung the egg mobiles from a tree in our garden, Miss J.R only noticed today!

She went into school a bit nervous today - she has been off for two weeks - but she came home chirpy as usual.

I could tell she missed it.

I wont say we have Easter Eggs left. (I just wont say it.)

I'll be turning them into Easter Egg Brownies shortly...

Happy Easter!

It's 3.15pm and all is well...

Baby E.M is napping (finally) and J.R is rooted to the sofa in front of a movie. Eggcellent.

This first half of the day has gone ok, I really did expect a riot...

But we had our breakfast, got dressed up, the girls had one egg each. (I even caught them sharing at one point!) I called my Ma, it's her birthday next week. Even she sounded surprise to not hear screaming in the background!

But I still have cakes to finish and I still haven't helped J.R decorate her Easter bonnet. Must press on :)

Here it is, 10am Monday the start of the school Easter break and more importantly the biggest test of my sanity! Since the weather's looking pretty bleak for the rest of this week I thought i'd only make plans for indoor activities, and if we're lucky and the sun does come out we can have a wander outside.

I've also started collecting the ingredients for my Easter theme cupcakes which i'll be starting at some point soon since Easter is only a week away :)

Easter Chic Treat

J.R is so proud of this, she made it at school :)

It's called "Birdies-cake"

It's a (cornflake) crispy treat topped with mini marshmallows and a fuzzy chic. N'aww...

A Very Choccy Easter

Chocolate eggs, Hollow chocolate bunnies, Mini eggs...Is it a bit early to be thinking about this? What with all that on store shelves already, it doesn't look like it. The girls don't really know or understand anything about Easter. All they know is they get chocolate that day, but that's not what I want it to be about. I plan to teach them that Easter marks the beginning of Springtime, baby animals being born etc. So i've made the decision this year not to get them Easter eggs.

Does that sound harsh? Not at all. Money-saving maybe.

Even without Mummy and Daddy's contribution the girls still have at least 3 eggs each coming their way, maybe more. Plenty!

Although Mummy still has to buy Daddy an Easter egg. *Sigh*

And a really big one apparently.