What? No peeps??

I have been meaning to put up a post about Easter for ages now. I saw everyone else's blog with their kids in darling easter dresses, gathering eggs and showing off baskets full of candy. It all looked like so much Easter-y fun! Well, we had our own kind of Easter-y fun over here. First order of the day... SNOW!! All of you in the US may not find that very interesting, as you've been buried since last October or so. But for us Londoners, snow on Easter was our FIRST this winter! We woke up in shock to find an inch actually sticking to our back patio. Sammie was especially excited, so we had to go out and check it out.
We tried to make a fun day of Easter, but I confess, we ended up doing a lot of improvising, as there just isn't the same selection of Easter "wares" over here. Some of the things we couldn't find here for our Easter celebration...
-- white eggs (a few days after, our friend Debbie told us about a "secret" Polish shop where she was able to get some... ours here are all brown)
-- egg coloring dye (Debbie also had some dye kits, but those were mailed to her from the US)
-- plastic eggs (one friend looked in 6 different shops to find them for primary, but was told she'd have to buy online or from a catalog. It turns out Woolworths does carry them, but you have to get them pretty far in advance.)
-- robin's eggs, (you know, the malted chocolate kind like whoppers with cool colors that you can make your own funky lipstick as you eat them?)
-- Easter baskets -- we ended up using ONE basket for the whole family, and it was one that originally came with flowers in it; Brian's mom transplanted the flowers, then I cut out the plant lining and cut tissue paper to line it, as there was also no Easter grass, of course.
-- jelly beans. Well, they did have some jelly bellies in the store we were in, but they always have those, so they don't count. They didn't have "Easter" jelly beans, ya know.
-- no peeps. Can you BELIEVE!? NO PEEPS!! Is there really an Easter bunny that doesn't bring peeps?!?
-- little girl Easter dresses. I wanted to get Sammie something new and springy, but there really was nothing at the stores. I even went to MotherCare -- which usually has the best selection for frilly things like that. There was only one "springy" dress, but it just had spaghetti straps and was over 20 pounds; not the best option for this Easter. Sam wore her pink plaid jumper with a long sleeved shirt under, and we didn't even get a picture of her, too bad.

Well, we made due for our Easter basket with M&Ms, gummy bears, gum drops and other little fruity candies. Sammie was thrilled to get a necklace and bracelet, as well as some fun barretts and hair clips. Spencer got a bottle, lucky boy. And I got some very nice bath bubbles. Brian got... um, M&Ms.

We also made a fun Easter Bunny cake that night... yummy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Sammie helped decorate.


Easter Sunday was just a week and a half after my surgery, so I wasn't the most "perky" person that weekend. We did go to church, but only stayed for an hour and then I came home with Spencer to rest. It was definitely a different Easter Sunday than others I've had. Memorable, yet quiet and a bit underdone. Oh well.