Easter and Bubbly

Gemma di Luna Moscato

A day late, but not a dollar short... this post was intended for yesterday, but the day got away from me.

Yesterday was Easter. We're not a religious family, certainly not me anyway. My husband in Jewish, so he's in the middle of Passover right now also. But on Easter Sunday, the bunny comes and hides plastic eggs inside and boiled eggs outside for the kids. I remember as a kid, growing up in NH, the Easter Bunny always hid all the eggs inside... I'm sure it was too cold most years to be running around outside in the yard early in the morning. Anyway, the bunny hid boiled eggs in the house. But the bunny didn't keep track of where they had been hidden, and my sister and I were apparently not the best searchers. At least one boiled egg got forgotten. INSIDE. That left a serious impression on me, and 30+ years later the rule in our house is that the boiled eggs are only hidden outside.

So, eggs were found and eaten. The 2yo managed to find at least 4 plastic eggs filled with chocolate that his brothers had somehow missed in their frantic searching, and ended up eating WAY too much chocolate before 8am. He did learn a new word though: chocolate. It's his new favorite word.

The rest of the day was spent playing outside, doing puzzles, relaxing. About midway through the day, I thought of my mom, and remembered that if she had been at my house on Easter, she would've started the day with a homemade pastry and a mimosa. It was much too late for the pastry business, but a mimosa could definitely happen. I popped open a bottle of bubbly (actually its the featured bottle today... a nice Italian Moscato), mixed it with a dash of orange juice, and sipped for the rest of the day. It paired wonderfully with the left over popcorn from movie night on Sat night, and just as nicely with a Reece's peanut butter egg ;-)

The kids were wonderful yesterday; playing together, helping each other, and really working on speaking with calm and kind voices. They're getting used to spending so much time together now, which is good since there appears to be no end in sight. We've been incredibly fortunate throughout this COVID pandemic. My husband can chose to work from home or the office, my younger kids are still able to go to daycare if needed. I've essentially been off work and using PTO for the last 3 weeks, but even without it we'll be ok for a while. We have space in our house, and space in our yard. The weather has allowed us to be outside a lot. I'm an empath, and knowing that there are millions of people for whom this experience has been much less than a vacation weighs heavy on me. My hope is that someday I'll be able to give back some, in some way, to help right the injustice that I'm acutely aware of.

For now, I try to connect with friends far away as much as I can. I'm donating everything I can to local families in need via county-wide groups on social media. I'm sewing all of my scrap cotton fabric into masks to give away to whomever is in need.

And of course, I'm stimulating the local economy by continuing to buy and drink wine...