Easter

Easter is one of the best times of the year. Spring time is beginning and all of the trees are blossoming and the flowers are growing. I love it. This Easter was surprisingly enjoyable.

Being married is an adjustment, and one of those adjustments, is not spending every holiday with your own family. This has been something I have always known about, but never really thought about. It never seemed real, and that made it hard for me to grasp. I got to spend our first Christmas with my family, but Easter was different.

My family decided to head to my sister's house in Denver this year for Easter. I would have loved to join, but the work situation did not allow for that. Jeffrey's family lives across the country, so we were going to spend our holiday as a couple.

We didn't do anything big. We gave our presents early, because we are basically the most impatient and incapable of keeping secrets from each other, people ever. We didn't do Easter baskets, but we did dye some eggs. We thought it was going to be quite a boring, and lonesome day. But then we got invited to the Hadlock's house.

The Hadlocks are long time friends of Jeffrey's family and I work with one of them at the elementary school. Through my marriage, I have really come to love this family. They are the friendliest, more generous, kind people I know. They have known me for such a short amount of time, but have made me feel so welcomed and taken care of. Whenever we leave their house after visiting, I feel so much happiness to be apart of something so great. I can only hope and pray to be able to raise a family with so much love and happiness.

I'm so happy and grateful to have such wonderful examples all around me for what I would like my future family to be like. I have my own family, Jeffrey's family, and now, the Hadlocks. I can only hope to mash up all of these cultures and traditions to form an equally wonderful family.