{"id":1774,"date":"2012-04-12T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2012-06-03T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T19:36:28","slug":"a-hunting-we-will-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/2012\/04\/a-hunting-we-will-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A hunting we will go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Easter this year was a bit<\/em> quieter.\u00a0 Grammy had to work on this weekend, as well as David in the morning, so it was later in the afternoon when we headed to Nana’s for food & hunting fun.\u00a0 We’d asked grandparents to lay low on the sweets, but we still had a couple dozen eggs to hide in the yard filled with change, a couple<\/em> of goodies or (gasp… wheeze…) nothing at all (gulp!)\u00a0 It was also the first year that the boys got to decorate some eggs, so they were excited to find the ones that they had done– mostly plain, pretty colors, with a couple ‘brown’ ones where Aidan had fun dipping them in each color for a time.\u00a0 Lucas rode with Muma– happy as could be and oblivious to all the goings on.\u00a0 Boys also found their baskets, with new water bottles, a Chugger each, and a couple of other goodies.\u00a0 Perhaps even more fun than the hunt is the “sort.”\u00a0 Opening the eggs and discovering their treasures on Nana’s “blue table” whilest onlookers scout yummies to ‘share’ and soak in the excitement of two golden boys over their findings.\u00a0 It’s become more of a tradition than we had ever expected, but the boys have really gotten into the big egg hunt, then of course hiding eggs for the grown ups to find for days afterwards, and even asking for ‘easter eggs’ to eat anytime they’d like a hard-boiled egg.<\/p>\n

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More important than this enchanting rigamaroll, is the remembrance of the event that we celebrate on this (or not) passover weekend.\u00a0 I’ve treasured more in our home the tradition David and I have set to read together Desire of Ages<\/a>‘ account of that solemn Friday<\/a> and glorious Sunday<\/a>.\u00a0 The boys also have a book and cd we read and listen to, and Alexander especially is just beginning to understand what really took place and happened<\/em> to Jesus at the end of his ministry on Earth.\u00a0 He asks a lot of questions– this weekend and other times just on a whim, and sometimes his little drawings and crafty creations reflect his consideration of the meaning of the Cross as we’ve opened up more of the meaning to him this year now that he’s getting older.\u00a0 One can’t help but smile in their whimsical childhood delight over a good treasure hunt- hide and seek, but so much more in our hearts do we aspire that they would truly grow up to seek the One who offers treasures far beyond any chocolate morsel or shiny coin.\u00a0 Even a spring day in rainbow colors turns dim in the light of an eternal\u00a0 kingdom where the even meager streets are paved <\/em>in gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter this year was a bit quieter.\u00a0 Grammy had to work on this weekend, as well as David in the morning, so it was later in the afternoon when we headed to Nana’s for food & hunting fun.\u00a0 We’d asked grandparents to lay low on the sweets, but we still Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,14],"tags":[56,97,104,58,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}