"It is! It is the Easter Beagle!"

Happy Easter!! It's almost 4pm and I can't believe I haven't had Easter dinner yet. I have been thinking all day about being at my Gramma's house, which was where I was planning on being before I got the job. We usually would eat around 12-12:30pm, after church, and be relaxing on the couch the rest of the day! This was of course after finding the Easter Basket that the Easter Bunny hid for you the night before! We would walk into the house and the overwhelming smell of cooked ham and all the pies and chocolate took over! She always has this enormous basket of candy with the green grass and peeps, jelly beans, chocolate eggs, chocolate coins that were crispy or plain or peanut butter, and you always had to get to the basket early to get a Cadbury Creme Egg because those always went fast! At dinner there would be a piece of chocolate in foil with a bunny on everyone's napkin. The dinner candles would be wax bunnys and there would be all sorts of eggs and bunny figures on the table. The table cloth was Easter themed and the aunts would be pretending they were bunnys or making some comment on the Easter Bunny coming to Gram's the night before. All the younger kids would be begging to eat the candy before dinner and they were usually allowed to have one piece. All of us would tell our life update over and over to the aunts, uncles, and cousins that we haven't seen in forever.

I could never wrap my head around the idea that this day and other holidays were always the same. The tradition was always there and that was something you could count on. You always knew what to expect and had that to look forward to. It was home <3.

Halleluia! The Lord has risen. Let us rejoice and be glad!