I am the Easter bunny scrooge, and I do not do special food and crafts for Holy Week. Oh wait, we did have 'Palm' Sundaes!
Monica made sweet, little chocolate palms to garnish the sundaes.
It's all I can do to get the house clean and prepare our Easter Sunday celebration. The important thing during Holy Week is prayer, extra Masses when we can make it, then the exhausting, joyful, amazing liturgies of the Triduum. Those we do.
Of course, the cleaning part is not necessary for an Easter celebration, but when my mother converted to the faith many years ago a lovely, devout Catholic lady mentored her and taught her to clean the house from top to bottom during Holy Week. When I was a kid, we CLEANED during Holy Week. The cleaning I do doesn't even come close to the cleaning we did in my childhood. But it's still an essential part of my Holy Week. LOL





me trying to catch a kid with the camera
the big boys watching and chuckling at Mom running around trying to get the right camera angel (they did do the whole egg hunt job for me so they can chuckle all they want)



the chef
Monica prepared most of our Easter Dinner. The first course was watercress soup. Followed by ham, lamb, a potato/herb tart, roasted asparagus and southern cornmeal/chive biscuits.

dessert was her amazing coconut cake


He is risen and we are His!