Recovery Week

Our Easter week began a little like this...Ava starts getting a cold Saturday night. By the end of Monday night she is a snot machine, coughing, crying, and not sleeping. Wednesday morning I take her to the Doctor's and she has an ear infection. Antibiotic started. Thursday I am feeling icky and Ava has an allergic reaction to the antibiotic. New medicine started. Hives come and go all day for two days. Yippee it's FRIDAY!! No, never mind, now I'm sick too. UGH! How will I ever find the energy to get ready for Easter Dinner at our house. Friday night...heart palpitations from cold medicine start and I don't sleep a wink and wake Dejan up at 2am telling him I'm certain my heart is going to stop working. Lots of drama at our house, I know! Saturday is such a beautiful day we all forget about our problems and get ready for Easter Sunday. Ava and I cough all day, we color eggs, clean the yard, make some food, borrow tables and chairs from our ever trusty neighbors, and argue over using paper plates or real plates on Sunday. Dejan wins. We set the table for our first official Easter Dinner with real plates (mind you, I am sick, so all I was seeing was way TOO many plates to do). It all turns out beautiful and we head to bed at 11pm. Sleep comes easily.

Easter Sunday...

So far so good. Everyone is up and ready to go by 9am. Cognac glazed ham is in the oven and we head out to church. Church is like a zoo. I think all the kids were jacked up on candy, including Ava. Church over, we head home, the fun begins.

We had such a perfect day. All the food turned out great and thanks to everyone for bringing a delicious covered dish. We ate an hour late, had a fun Easter egg hunt, played badminton, emptied a lot of bottles, ate some delicious desserts, and the rain held off until the party was almost over. Our family made this day perfect. I only regret not getting a picture of all of us together.

As far as my title for this blog post. It is Wednesday and we are all finally rested, but the sewer backed up and flooded our basement, the snot and coughing continues but has almost run its course, the house is still not fully cleaned, Ava is running around saying 'cock" after I taught her the sound a rooster makes (it's even worse because I find myself privately smirking everytime she says it), we have a party to go to tomorrow night (thank you Chris and Sara for babysitting), and company spending the night. Recovery may catch up by the end of the month.

In closing, because I am a picture person, here are a few extra from Easter that make me smile.