Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everybody! We miss you today and would love to come to your church and eat some Easter dinner with you! Poor Eliza has been sick over the last few days with a pretty high fever. We took her to a children's clinic near our house yesterday. After a $10 (!!!) visit to the doctor (doctor's fee: 70 baht or $2!!) and 6 bottles of medicine: 280 baht), we found out she has an ear infection so she's now on antibiotics and drops and pain medicine and has improved slightly. She and I are staying home this morning while Tom and Claire are celebrating Easter at our Thai church.
Here are some of the celebrations around our house this morning.....
Claire getting into dying Easter eggs the exact right shade. We only had leftover coloring from Christmas, so red and green it is!
Claire with some quail eggs. They are pretty commonly eaten here and are cheap at the grocerey store. i bought some for decorations and we girls made a quail egg nest from dried grass.
Claire starting the Easter egg hunt. Look quick, Claire, it's HOT out here!!
Eliza...this face says it all about how she's feeling today, poor baby....
She scores! Green egg in a green vine. Tricky mommy.
Eliza perks up when she discovers all the candy in her basket. Thanks Grandaddy and Grandmom Rhodes for the Peeps!! They were immediately devoured!
Claire and Eliza have been opening "resurrection eggs" (thank you Grandpa and Grandma Mast!) with little symbols of Jesus's death and resurrection every night this week at our family devotions. It's been neat to see Claire taking in more of the story and really understanding it this year. She's been praying a lot thanking Jesus for dying for her and asking lots of good questions ("Why do we all sin?").
It has been a litte lonely celebrating Easter in a neighborhood where almost no one knows about the holiday...but it's also given Easter a really personal meaning too- like Claire, we are really thankful for Jesus death for us and that he loves us that much.
Now go eat some Easter ham (or pie!) for us!
-Candice
Comments
Hi! I've been popping in from time to time to read about your adventures, and finally felt that I should tell you I'm here. :) Reading your blog while thinking about my life makes Reach training seem like it was 100 years ago! You're girls are close to our girls in age, and I can understand a lot of what you write about the adjustments and other challenges you face. We did the Resurrection Eggs this year, too, and loved them! Feel free to come visit our blog...
Posted by: Rhonda Slaubaugh | April 11, 2007 02:30 AM