Easter weekend will be our first time hosting a house guest since moving to Richland, as the World's Great Nana comes for a visit. While she is only staying for the weekend(flying in Friday AM, leaving Monday AM) we are all very excited. With round trip plane tickets Seattle to Pasco coming in around $170, and gas prices creeping ever upwards, taking the plane makes sense for one person. The girls are jonesing their Nana, and didn't know if they could wait another two weeks to see her.
While walking onto church this week, there were little girls standing out front handing out palm fronds. Not being the religious type, I asked my wife what the purpose of the vegetation was. She explained that she had seen it done before on Palm Sunday. A light bulb went off for both of us...if this was Palm Sunday, that meant Easter was only 1 week away, not two.
I'm not sure how we misplaced a week, or lead ourselves to believe that there were still two weeks until Easter, but we did. Commence Operation Get Organized in the Apartment. I spent part of my Sunday splitting the 25 pound bag of oatmeal we bought at Win-Co into 1 gallon bags, then placing O2 absorbers into those 1 gallon bags, then placing 4 bags of oatmeal and a few bags of beans into a 5 gallon bucket with more O2 absorbers. I know mylar would have been better than plastic 1 gallon bags, but we could not find any in any local stores, and with my moms visit now only a week away, we didn't have time to wait for mylar bags to show up in the mail.
In truth, my wife will have the place squared away and looking ship-shape by Wednesday....but we had to put the plan to sort through summer clothes and pack up winter clothes on hold for a week. Can't have this place looking like a laundry bomb went off...although it would give the Easter Bunny plenty of places to hide eggs.
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