Despite all my hemming and hawing in the weeks leading up to my birthday, I have to say, it was a really good one this year and I loved having the opportunity to celebrate with distant family members on Passover. We don’t have the chance to see each other too often, and being in a room full of cousins, aunts, and uncles and having them sing to me… well, it was a first and it meant a lot.
I love my family to pieces even when my aunt drives me bonkers about what kind of dish is acceptable for Passover/free of allergens and despite my uncle ribbing me incessantly about getting old (I’m not joking when I say that he must have made 20 inappropriate jokes about my age throughout the evening). I love them all anyway. Because, as the expression goes, “Family. Can’t kill ‘em. Can’t kill ‘em.” Or something like that, right? Besides, one of my cousins picked me up AND did an amazing Christopher Walken impersonation while my other cousin gifted me delicious chocolates, which made up for about 20 of the other things that happened that evening.
On Easter Sunday Bryan and I attended church with my family, had bagels with them on their sun porch and then made our way to a local restaurant to stuff our faces even further with a buffet-style lunch. Our apartment is filled with candy, sweets, a bunny ear from a mutilated Easter cake, and the remnants of a weekend spent eating out at various restaurants.
Easter detox starts now.
I had the chance to rub my cousin’s wife’s pregnant belly (with permission of course, because how creepy would that be otherwise?). It’s crazy to think that in less than a month, there will be a new baby in the family—the first in more than 30 years. Can you imagine? After a lifetime spent sitting at the kid’s table, I’m more than happy to make room for a cute, new generation.
Tell me, my sweets—did you celebrate this weekend? What did you do and does your family have any special traditions?
Sounds like your uncle in an annoying old man. You should’ve given him a taste of his own medicine. Some people just think they’re soooo funny, though, don’t they?
I didn’t do much this weekend, kinda relaxed but I did have an Easter Dinner at my mom and step-dad’s place with Jeff so that was nice.
I worked on Easter and the only way we celebrated was to take the dogs for a walk! Sounds like you guys had a wonderful time!
I am so far behind in all things life related especially blogging and I missed your birthday…I am so sorry. Happy belated my sweets!!!
I am that creepy person who loves to rub pregnant women’s bellies. I don’t know why, but I gravitate towards them. Must. Rub. Belly. Gah I’m a freak. I do ask though. I’m not one of those “hands” that shows up out of nowhere at a grocery store and starts feeling a lady up. I have willpower.
xoxo
Wow! A new generation starts.
I have to be honest – I did the opposite of what I usually do on Easter, which is usually to eat all of the candy in the world. I’ve been sort of off sugar for a week for some odd reason.
Don’t worry. I’d never give it up. Just circumstantial this week!
Sounds like a sweet weekend for you, not just because of the family and the birthday but the amount of sweets and diabetes inducing foods 😛 kidding
Not much on my side, as i mentioned to you somewhere… spent the weekend running errands and doing some studying. the closest I got to any bunny easter whateverness was nibbling on my cat’s ears. If that counts for something similar to biting a rabbit’s ear off.
Oh no, I totally missed your birthday! So sorry!
Happy belated birthday!! Glad to hear it was a good one!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! xxx
Glad you had a wonderful birthday/Passover/Easter!
Wow, you sure know how to do Easter right, Charlotte! That’s awesome. It’s funny but I’ve never really warmed up to the whole Easter holiday. It leaves me feeling blah. I don’t know why.
Happy belated Birthday!! I’m glad you had a lovely day filled with family and chocolate. Sounds wonderful.
Glad to hear you had a wonderful birthday lovely!!! 🙂 Aww how exciting to have a new baby in the family 🙂 It’s a strange phenomena seeing babies be born and grow up – it makes you realize how fast time flies and how much we’ve aged in that process. Lol. 🙂 I don’t celebrate Easter but I do love me some Peeps! Have a great weekend and have fun with the detox Charlotte! Take Care -Iva