It's a REAL good thing Mila has never thought a thought quietly in her head. Every word that passes her conscious falls out of her face. While there are days that I would like to crawl under the bed and hide from all of her words, there are also days when she pieces together words that catch my attention.
Holy smokes was that kid excited leading up to Easter. She had REAL high expectations. She mentioned it several times, even going so far as to detail her plan for finding as many eggs as possible. She also mentioned all of her hopes and dreams for a basket and HOOBOY there were a lot of them.
It's a REAL good thing she wouldn't stop talking about how excited she was for Easter because I was going to sort of skip it. I wasn't going to TOTALLY skip it, but I was thinking we could scale way back on candy and such because why bother? WHY BOTHER WITH ANYTHING?
Ahem.
Alexis is a little too old to care and Mila is small enough for me to scam her into whatever, but all that excitement led to me doing the usual 200+ eggs hidden all over the place plus obnoxious baskets. I'm not talking Peloton levels of obnoxious, which was apparently the Easter gift of choice for several of Alexis' friends, but still. Books and board games and candy, oh my. I plotted for baskets that contained lots of things to do, ranging from the Friends LEGO set for Alexis all the way to Mila's big packet of construction paper and boxes of new markers. It required a lot of scheming to pull all of the stuff together, but I managed.
And HOOBOY am I glad I did. Mila nearly tripped over her own smile as she dashed from egg to egg. She screamed and laughed and carried on, managing to maintain a super high level of happy for a solid two hours. It was pretty perfect.
And then there was Alexis.
I thought Alexis was too old for all of the shenanigans. I WAS WRONG. She was just as obnoxiously happy as her sister. She was also 100% to blame for the actual written plan that detailed how they would not miss any eggs.
They still missed some eggs.
But they were pretty darn happy as they walked right past piles of candy.
So, a big shout out to Mila for making it clear that she expected normalcy in the midst of a very not-normal situation. Little did I know, it was exactly what we all needed.