Typical Easter

Growing up, our typical Easter weekend consisted of a Saturday night full of egg decorating and restless sleep, waiting for the Easter bunny. On Sunday morning, we would wake up and see our beautiful Easter baskets. Then, without much delay, we had to get dressed in our new Easter clothes and head out to church, as a family. Of course there was the typical arguements on the way to church. My mother nagging my father to go slower and quit tailgating and my sister and I fighting over who can put their arm on the backseat armrest. After Sunday School and CHurch, we head to Grandmommy's house, where my aunt's uncle's and cousins would soon be as well. Soon we would all sit down to a feast of city and country ham, green beans, mashed potatos, corn bread, creamed corn, and several other dishes. After everyone ate, the adults would sneakily disappear and hide the prepared eggs outside. Then the most exciting part, all the kids were released to hunt for candy filled and hard-boiled eggs all over the yard. This was a very important part of my childhood and others like me.
This year was a little different. Easter of 2011, and we are 20 something years past the above described easter experience. This year, on saturday afternoon my ,mother, my son and I drove to lexington to pick up the son of my brother, who happens to be in jail. We brought him home with us for Easter weekend. That night, my father, mother, son, nephew, and myself gathered at my mothers house to decorate a couple dozen hard-boiled eggs. We were missing my two brothers (one in jail, the other kind of anti social) and my sister, also in jail. also we were missing two of my other nephews and my sisters daughter. That sunday night i returned to my home with my son. The next morning, he found his easter basket when he awoke, he wasn't overly excited but he is just a year and a half old. In trying to keep with tradition, we got dressed for church and loaded the car up. My son and I met my father and my nephew at church (where my mother was in the choir). After the church service, we all seperatly returned to richmond, but more specifically at Ryan's to have our other than traditional Easter dinner. My other brother and my other nephews did make it to our Easter dinner. Afterwards, due to the awful pattern of weather, we were unable to have an easter egg hunt too. Instead, my mother and i packed up all the kids, my son, nephew kaleb, and other nephews KJ and Kegan, to go visit my brother who was in jail in lexington. When we got to lexington we were shot down yet again, his cell's visits were already accounted for!
We did not have a very traditional or memorable easter, oh how the times have changed!!