Regina Caeli

During the Easter Season, we sing the Regina Caeli before lunch. Chiara has really enjoyed singing this over the past 50 days, so on this last day of the Easter Season, I have a video of her singing.

Tomorrow, we return to the Angelus!

Easter Octave

Here's a look at some of the fun things we did during the Easter Octave last week...


We made Easter cards...

The kids celebrated at their Good Shepherd "classes" (religious ed). Chiara was very proud of the Easter candle that she got...

Playtime outside on a rare afternoon without rain!

Yeah, that's a light saber dual...

Cookie making...

Elena made a wonderful mess :)

Matteo was more into cookie eating than cookie decorating :)

Easter egg dyeing and painting...

Elena got to paint with water colors after her nap. You saw what happened with the flour during cookie making, right?! There's no way we were going to include her in egg dyeing and painting :)

The eggs make a nice addition to our table for the Easter season!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter! We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Sunday!

Here are a few pictures from our day...

Last night after Dany, Maria, and Cati left for the Easter Vigil and after I got the others in the bed, I got to prepare things for Easter morning!



Here are the kids digging into their Easter baskets this morning. Even though the girls didn't get into bed until nearly midnight, they were up a little after 7:00 this morning.

Today we not only celebrated Easter, but also Elena and Dany's birthdays! Here is the birthday girl this morning.

Here are the kids after Mass this morning. It's always a joy to see the transformation of the church from Good Friday to Easter morning, and it was really wonderful for me to see Matteo appreciate this for the first time this year. You could see the joy in his face when we went into the church this morning and as we sat down and he had time to look around. He even asked me about half way through Mass if it would stay decorated like this for the whole Easter season (we celebrate Easter for 50 days - until Pentecost Sunday).

Matteo really participated in the Triduum celebrations this year. He asked to go to the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper this year (it's rather late, so only the older kids usually go). He really paid attention and participated at this Mass and on Good Friday. He was very serious about Venerating the Holy Cross the "right"way :)

Easter egg hunt this afternoon! The weather forecast called for rain all day, but it actually rained only a bit this morning. It was great to get to hunt eggs outside!

Here are some of the kids writing with the sidewalk chalk that they got for Easter.

Notice how Elena is writing with her left hand. She does this consistently. I'm pretty sure that I FINALLY have a lefty!!!

Here is the birthday girl on the phone with family in Italy.

Birthday pictures to come.

I also hope to post other pictures this week as we continue to celebrate Easter. We observe Lent for 40 days and we observe Easter for 50 days! We're taking the Octave of Easter off from school this week. We hope to bake cookies, dye eggs, make cards and just have fun!

Easter Sunday

Here are pictures from Easter Sunday afternoon, which we spent at the Krom's house. Every year they generously open their homes for a fun Easter get together for all of their friends.

Here are the kids hunting eggs...

Elena enjoyed playing with their findings afterwards!

The kids had lots of fun playing!

We hope you all enjoyed your Easter Sunday as much as we did!

Stay tuned for Easter Monday pictures!!