Happy Easter!

The stories about the Easter bunny bringing Easter baskets for the kids that we have been discussing for days now culminated in Mike secretly dragging the two easter baskets into their bedroom while they were busy destroying the couch early this morning. The next few hours were very...sugar-infused. I had dumped out all of the pre-packaged candy in the plastic eggs, and conservatively replaced it with two mini Hersey's Kisses in each egg. The focus was supposed to be on the eggs themselves (with various cool features such as suction cups, glow-in-the dark, handy strings, etc), on the new Easter-themed books, and on the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and Eyore stuffed animals that joined our family this morning. The kids were each allowed just one candy before breakfast....
Ten minutes after the first candy was eaten, as I wonder why the house has been so quiet for the past 85 seconds, I see two sets of feet sticking out from behind the curtain, with the faint crackling of plastic eggs being opened.
Me: "You guys are not eating candy, right? No more candy!"
Vasco and Justine:"No, mommy, not eating candy!"
I pull back the curtain to find a delicious ring of chocolate around Justine's lips, as she tries to quickly finish up chewing... The process repeats at least twice, with the kids disappearing and reappering with new chocolate residue, until I decided this whole "I'm-going-to-trust-you-not-to-eat-the-chocolate" thing is not working, and I dumped out the remaining stuff, despite Vasco's pleas that all he wants to do is "touch the candy".
And somehow, despite all the madness, we managed to get make it to church at 11a.m, where, it seems all of the rest of DC had arrived, before us, and the single space left to squeeze into in the whole cathedral-sized church was 3 rows from the front, next to a woman who, if she did like kids, managed to hide it very well. She was less then amused when Vasco pointed out to her that the sheep in the stained-glass window scene were drinking water. While Vasco kept repeating random snippets that Pastor Meredith said during the children's sermon ("Jesus was gone!" (from the tomb), "celebrate!" , "disciples, mommy?"), Justine used the platform to yell for "PerriErin", "PerriEriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin", who were not there, but may have nonetheless heard us calling for them, as they drive up from North Carolina! :)
Happy Easter everyone!!!