Eastertide

Aidan and his little brother and his big sister on Easter Day. Don't even ask about the feeding bag in the forefront of Clare's picture. Or if you do ask, ask Kieron, not me.

His oldest brother Liam was here. We missed him. Aidan kept saying, "We're going to Pat and Katie's and Liam will be there!" Positive thinking. It didn't happen, but Liam did call and describe his stay there a bit and called again to let us know he was back safely at college.

Clare cantored at Mass up at our little "station" chapel, and the two boys Kieron and Sean were altar servers. The Vigil duties (lighting candles and swinging incense braziers) was pretty stressful but I'm glad to say they got through it with no fires and no major glitches.

We got to provide the incense for the church service, which led to a new expression of Aidan's which puzzled his brother Brendan when he heard it:









"Quick, we have to go back home to get the incense!"



The next day we went down to Fresno to spend time with our Ryan and Molthen relatives. Paddy had fun playing with his cousin.


Then back up here to find what the "Easter squirrels" had brought in the Easter baskets.