the nightmare before easter.

This was my schedule come easter morn.....

• check out what the bunny had left (aka mom)
  
• get dinner preparations underway
• get the fam in their Sunday Easter garb
• go to church
• send Dave home to put PG down and start the ceremonial Easter ham
• do the Primary Sharing Time lesson
• teach my CTR 5 class
• return home
• help finish getting dinner ready
• eat
• play with our Easter guests
• get to the SLC airport w/PG and fly to Boise

As you can imagine, I had a LOT to prepare the days leading up to my crazy Easter schedule. I had a good handle on things the previous week. Then a few wrenches got thrown in the works:

• Wrench #1 - PG got an ear infection Monday before. Minor set back a few days of fever and coddling one sick baby. But we started him on that delicious delicious bubble gum medicine (Amoxicillin).
  
• Wrench #2 - (not to be too graphic) but Bubblegum medicine has an awesome side affect: diarrhea. By day #2 on the meds, PG's little bum was raw, and bleeding. Which means, I can't take him anywhere, he's crying crying crying, and we spend our days soaking him in the tub whenever he needed a change of diaper, and then letting him air dry. If you think I got peed on, you'd be correct. If you think I didn't get anything else done - you'd also be correct.
  
• Wrench #3 -Sharing Time: for those of you who don't know, Sharing Time is the lesson ALL in Primary kids get before they break for classes, so you've gotta prepare pretty well in advance. Children can smell weakness, so "winging it" just won't do. I prepared a corresponding Easter Egg hunt (how appropriate). As I'm putting my clues into the plastic eggs the night before, I realized - I don't have enough eggs. Its 11:30 pm the night before Easter - where am I going to get some? I made bro Jake go with me to the store - Macey's was cleaned out, Harmon's - cleaned out.....but there were a few random eggs from a broken package scattered about on the empty shelves, and I was NOT going to Wal-Mart. I'll let you do the math.
  

Anyway - an extremely exhausted Dave and I hit the wall and were laughing hysterically come midnight. Somehow we ended up on this clip from YouTube that made everything ok. Thanks Hammer for making my Easter.

Play me and it will change your life.

Side note: Although Easter was insane, everything got done, and we even made our flight with time to spare.