Weekending it - Easter

Does anyone else feel like there is simultaneously more time and yet less time? I feel like I've gained so many added hours at home not having to commute and get "home" literally a second after "leaving" work but I'm still not accomplishing as much during the day? Where are the extra minutes going? I used to have distinct pockets of time to blog and it seems like those have entirely evaporated.

I meant to update about our Easter weekend earlier but somehow it's already Wednesday. Apologies.

Friday afternoon I left work early which is so weird to say since I didn't leave. I went with Mandy to Trader Joe's in New Jersey. They are managing crowds really well at that store and we felt very comfortable and controlled. Our cashier was pregnant as well and due at the end of the month. It felt good to interact with another soon-to-be mom dealing with all of this too.

Since we did our shopping on Friday we planned to relax more on Saturday instead of run around in search of our elusive grocery list items. We hung out at Mandy's apartment and then hoped to go for a walk. New Jersey parks are now closed so we scoped out two options in Staten Island. They were both completely overrun as if life was normal. We didn't even get out of the car. We went home and baked cupcakes instead.

Plan B for our once a week walk became to get up early on Sunday and go somewhere in Bay Ridge. We walked over to the tiny neighborhood botanic garden around 6:30 am. We only passed a few people and got to get some fresh air and saw some spots of spring arriving.

When we got home we got ready for the day and let Kip open his Easter basket.

He got a Blippi costume, a Little Blue Truck book, and a monster truck kinetic sand set. He loved all of it.

Back when Dan and I were dating I bought us a little stuffed dog named Puddles. Kip found that ragged old stuffie a few weeks ago and has taken to sleeping with it. The problem is the toy smells SO bad...like dust mites and old sweat or something. So I ordered another one online hoping to swap it out without Kip noticing. Well, apparently the one I ordered was three times larger. So Kip calls him Big Puddles but has fortunately not asked about the original since.

After virtual church during Kip's nap time, we did a little Easter egg hunt. He had seen me buy on my phone the car filled eggs a month ago and asked about "Egg Cars" nearly every day since. He had so much fun finding the eggs and a little candy we hid around. He was surprisingly good at the hunt concept right away.

The rest of the afternoon we colored and crafted, played with trains, took family photos, and Mandy made a rainbow of hearts in our bedroom window.

Mandy also made an amazing Easter dinner with ham, scalloped potatoes, salad, bread, pineapple, and cupcakes for dessert. It was a really nice and normal feeling day despite the circumstances and I was really grateful for that. Normally our church does a really big block party carnival for Easter and the church's birthday celebration. We really missed the festivities this year but are hopeful they will return better than ever next year.

Gloomy weather returned on Monday just in time for the work week.