Egg Tree

2 months and 7 days ago our family merged with my mother, step-father, and their two golden retrievers. We moved into their house. They were very gracious to allow us to come. It has been hectic to say the least with the merging of everyday things that don't ordinarily seem complicated. Anyway, today, my sister Katie and her son Connor arrived. They are visiting for Daxton's 1st birthday and Easter.... which leads us to the tree. We wanted to have the kids first egg tree for Easter. This involved first having D go to the attic to bring down the Easter box. Then I took the plastic eggs into the family room. Katie and I were trying to sort the eggs to throw out the cracked or gross eggs. Next we had to put the string in the eggs. This doesn't seem all that hard. (enter concept juggling family) Follow me and picture this if you can. I am sitting on the floor with my sister with the eggs in front of us. She is trying to untangle the string. I start putting the string into the eggs to hang them. Here comes curious Kristin, "Mommy doin'?" I explain. She proceeds with, "Take it out." You can only guess what happens next to all the strings. So I explain to her the plan and the tree. Okay. Moving on. Daxton arrives. He just wants to take the eggs. Couldn't care less about the string so I pass off a few to him. Now Connor. He is a few months older than Kristin and decides he likes the concept of opening the eggs to cause the string to fall out too. Somehow we manage to fend off the busy 6 hands and finish. My mother, sister, 3 kids, and I go outside. At some point during this Bill shows up and so do our neighbors, 2 parents and 2 teenage boys. I call Don who has been mia to come experience the madness. He decides to let our 2 dogs join the outside party. Bill wants his dogs out too. One of the neighbors two dogs thinks what the heck am I standing in my yard for look at all that fun and comes over. Oh did I forget to mention to you that Mom and Bill are having an addition put on to the house and we have big holes and dirt piles all over the yards? Yup. So my sister is standing closest to the road to fend off escapies, Mom is tying eggs to the tree while Daxton stands there afraid to move because he doesn't like the grass. 5 dogs barreling around. 2 toddlers twirling and rolling. 2 adults and 1 teenager with the dogs other adults, and 2 more adults and 1 teenager watching... for a grand total of 12 humans and 5 dogs.... outside in our front yard, just to tie eggs to a tree.... to remind us of Jesus' new life and the new life found in Jesus.