Is it an egg in the hand is worth two in the bush?

The finished product. I picked the eggs up today. They had to cure for 48 hours. The girl's egg was really cool. It looked great when we held it up to the light. I am so proud of her!

Soccer league

The boy and girl are in the spring soccer league.  Coincidentally, each of their teams got red jerseys, and again coincidentally they both are number two.

April Fools!

Evidently, there is no fool like an old fool. I guess I am the old fool, as I tried to play tricks on the kids and they didn't fall for them!. In the morning I called them to breakfast and told them they got lemonade with their pancakes. I guess they were suspicious, as they don't get juice to drink (I know I am a mean Mom). I had made yellow jello the night before, poured it into glasses and stuck a straw in it. When they tried to drink the "lemonade" they wouldn't be able to suck it up easily. That was the idea anyway. They boy looks into the glass and said "Hey, that looks like jello in the glass." He then got a spoon and started eating it. The picture below is after he started eating the jello. At least they thought I was mildly amusing.

Their Auntie was nice enough to babysit them that night. I told her I would have dinner ready for them. Before we left I pulled out the "hamburgers" I had made. My Aunt looks at them and said "Aren't those a little small". The boy looked at them and said "Are these dessert hamburgers". Darn it, foiled again! They are in fact two vanilla wafers with a peppermint patty inside and vanilla frosting that was suppose to look like mayonnaise. I am glad I didn't go to the trouble of tinting coconut green for lettuce. On the up side, they liked the burger dessert.

Now a reasonable parent after two failed attempts might say to herself, "Well, I guess my April fools days are over". However, I think we all know that isn't my style. I say "I need to serious up my game for next year". I am starting the April fools planning process today! Wish me luck.

Another view of the "burgers".

Lemonade.

The girl did the Gospel reading at assembly on Monday. It has taken me a few days to get it up. She spoke in front of a total of 600 students, teachers and parents. As she is in the choir, she also gets on the podium every couple of weeks to lead the morning's patriotic song. I know I wouldn't have been able to do that at 7, or even now.

This was her Gospel reading.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke. Jesus said "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine all over the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon." When they hear this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.

The Gospel of the Lord