Happy Easter everyone! I hope everyone back home is having a fabulous easter, hunting for eggs, opening easter baskets, and getting all gussied-up in their adorable pastels for easter service. Easter was always one of my favorite holidays when I was little; I loved getting to wear my new easter dress (totes a girly-girl from day 1) and spending easter with my family and our neighbors at our tiny little church down the road from my house. We always had a huge easter egg hunt following sunday service, and since me and my sisters were the only little kids for the longest time, we were totally spoiled. After church, we would always have an amazing sunday family dinner. That's one thing I really miss now that I'm in Argentina. Now that we're all getting older, and Charlsey and Scott live all the way down in North Carolina, and Michaela's more concerned with spending time with her friends than with her family, it's so hard for all of us to get together for nice, sit-down family dinners like we used to.
But I can still remember sunday dinners from when I was little. We would come home from church, mom would make us change out of our nice, sunday clothes, and me and her (cause I'm totally the future-housewife out of me and my sisters) would make sunday dinner. And I'm talking good, southern, sunday dinners. Roast chicken or turkey and all the side fixins. Mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, biscuits, and usually another other vegetable dad had brought up from the garden. And because Easter and springtime was when it started getting warm again, to me that meant sweet tea. Because, in south, it's not a meal without sweet tea. Because it's Easter, the rest of my host mom's family joined us for Easter dinner, which was some huge pescado dish all thrown together in a huge pan. Unfortunately, having made the stupid decision to sleep with my window open last night, I woke up with the start of what I hope is just a simple cold. Which means I missed out of family dinner. I did get to say hi to everyone, but since Bernadita (Gabriela's daughter) is here with her new baby, I didn't want to risk passing my cold on to anyone else. So my Easter's been less than eventful, full of homework and lots of breaks spent perusing the internet, all while laying in my bed or lounging on the chair at my desk. But I hope everyone else out there is enjoying today and spending it with everyone they love and cherish. ¡Feliz Pascua, mis cariños!
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