Happy Easter!

He is risen, Alleluia! We have been having too much fun eating candy, watching movies and playing to blog lately. While Easter Sunday was a few days ago, today is Easter Wednesday, so technically my greetings are right on time. Here are some shots of the big morning after a beautiful 7:00 am Mass: Everything was ready on the bay window...

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Holy Saturday

It's Holy Saturday, which means Easter is tomorrow! I don't know about you, but I'm really excited!! Today we, like millions of people across the world, dyed Easter eggs. Concentrating Pal. Bean's "friends" helping out. We used rubber bands to make stripes and crosses.  The ever so important adding of...

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Good Friday

It has been a wonderful, reflective Good Friday in the Cotter home. For breakfast we had the hot cross buns I made yesterday. We kept the frosting off of them for now, but what we didn't eat this morning will be frosted for Easter brunch. Here's Bean enjoying one. In front of her is the back of the Last Supper craft she made yesterday. The...

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Keeping Holy Thursday Holy

The Triduum is here, which means Easter is around the corner! These next three days are the most holy days in the Church, so I am always looking for ways to make that reality come alive. Here is what we are up to today. This morning we made Easter napkin ring holders for the Easter table. They are made in much the same way as the holly napkin rings...

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Holy Thursday Unleavened Bread

Today on Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, we commemorate the Last Supper where Jesus institutes the Eucharist by giving us His body and blood in the forms of bread and wine. While we don't celebrate a full Seder or Passover Meal at the Cotter home, we will be having unleavened bread and grape juice at dinner to remind us of this sacred gift. (When...

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Easter Lamb Name Cards

It's Holy Week and I love it. Because FOCUS is awesome Kevin's Easter respite begins tomorrow, which means we really get to experience and live the Triduum.  As usual Bean and I have been crafting some special decor for the holiday table. Tonight's feature is our lamb name cards. Sure it will just be the four of us for Easter this year, but...

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Mexi Bowls

About a week ago three friends and my sister had babies in an 11 day span. Two of them live a mile away, so I made a triple batch of one of our favorite meals to take to them. I'm always on the look out for easy meals that can be taken to friends, so I thought I'd share this one. Mexi Bowls are a Cotter original and the result of my obsession with...

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