A Joyful & Blessed Easter to you and your family!

When I was little on Saturday night (after the long, long Easter Vigil mass)  I would roll myself up in my blankets at bedtime and fall asleep pretending I was a caterpillar.... When I woke on Easter morning I pretended that I was a beautiful butterfly!!

 I always love the imagery - a New Beginning!!!  

....and I have always had a pretty enormous and dramatic imagination! :)  LOL  

I hope you all have a joyous Easter Sunday!  Here is to a new beginning, no matter the reason, right?   :)

Hope the Easter Bunny hides lots of treats for you too!!  

(Scarlett loves bunnies... and Lily is obsessive about kitty cats right now so I thought this was hilarious!! )

 Thanks to the Graphics Fairy for her beautiful pictures!

Luv,

2 little LENT lessons... (Lent Link-Up and Sunday Snippets)

Hiding the ALLELUIA until Easter...

Found this adorable idea from Lacy at Catholic Icing (one of my new fave blogs!)

I just took what I found from around the house... brown paper bags, purple tissue paper, markers, glue, wide yellow ribbon and letters I printed off the computer that Lacy found on Martha Stewart- sooo pretty!

 

The Lamb of God (found this on Ten kids and a dog and Karen Edmisten)

 

I found a picture of a lamb online (because I am TERRIBLE at freehand) - printed it out and had my kids glue a cotton ball on (one for each day of Lent). We talked about Jesus dying for us so that someday we would be with him in heaven.  They seemed to have fun putting on the lamb's "wool"!! 

For some AWESOME Catholic Lenten activities check out:

and 

SUNDAY SNIPPETS-- A CATHOLIC CARNIVAL