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Jessica's Week


Ana's Week 
Easter is such an important holiday to me, so I knew that celebrating the Easter holiday couldn’t be missed. I spent the weeks up to Easter focusing on Bible stories so that we could easily transition into celebrating the Easter holiday on a Christian note. The Resurrection Eggs I bought at Hobby Lobby were by far the most exciting thing that Aria played with during the week to understand the religious component to the Easter holiday, but I won’t deny that Aria’s favorite part of Easter was definitely the visit by the Easter bunny (because who doesn’t love a basket of toys and an Easter egg hunt). I loved how excited Aria got by Easter, and I think it might be her new favorite holiday after all of the fun activities and events we went to during the week. With dealing with the stress of Zach trying to go back to the military and having to wait for answers, it was nice to take a breather from difficult lessons and just have a blast together.

While I recommend keeping the death and resurrection of Jesus as the focal point of the week, there are so many great activities and fun items out there to buy for both the religious and secular sides of the holiday. I definitely need to find more religious activities to do next year, but I felt like she at least got a basic idea of why we celebrate Easter.

The Dollar Tree had a bunch of great stuff to make an Easter box that I can reuse again each year. I also found a bunch of great refrigerator magnets, painting items, and games. I loaded up on Easter books at a Michaels sale, and we watched a really great movie about the Easter holiday called Read and Share Bible Easter. The more items you can find that can be reused in later years (especially if you have younger kids), I think that the more it will pay off down the road!
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Aria’s favorite things to do during the week involved Easter egg hunts and Easter dying. I definitely didn’t hard boil enough eggs for her to dye because she was so upset when we ran out of eggs. Aria loved the Easter egg hunts at church, the house, and library, and they can really be a great way to teach kids to learn to pay attention to the environment around them. I highly recommend going to church at the end of the week (especially because they can really add on to what you did during the week). We lucked out and our church had a petting zoo on Easter with baby chicks and bunnies!  Since Aria finished the week asking when Easter and the bunny was coming back, I’m pretty sure Easter was a hit!