Happy Easter

Hi again everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely Easter and managed to spend time with family and of course most importantly that you ate copious amounts of chocolate.

This year I just happen to be one of the really lucky people who loves chocolate and isn't on any sort of strict diet stopping me from eating it and therefore I think I have done quite well out of it.

I had my annual Easter egg hunt around the living room and hallway. There were a few new hiding places this year and conveniently as I had birthday cards up in the living room too these came in handy for hiding places. There were also a few of the old standard places too which is always good.

I got a pretty good haul over the weekend, supplemented hugely by the bunnies that my hubby brought me home from work. They had all been given one each on their desks in the morning on the Thursday before the Easter break and also later in the day had a chance to win a second by answering a quiz question correctly.

Adam answered the question and so did his mate at work. I have done really well by this friend over Easter as he is on a diet as is his wife so he very kindly donated his winnings to me! On Tuesday there were yet more prezzies from what is turning out to be one of my favourite people! Another egg! Adam's mate (the same one again) turned up to work with yet another egg for me and not only that but it happened to be my favourite chocolate.

I love white chocolate and above all Milkybar chocolate. At Easter it is always more special to me than any other time that I have white chocolate - This is mostly because every year I would always get a Milkybar egg from my Gran.

We have a couple of other things around as well at Easter. The chicken always comes out for her annual appearance - she's quite happy sat on her nest of eggs and a couple of tiny little chicks in there too. There are even a few yarn flowers in the basket now too. I received them in a craft swap that I did a couple of years ago. Thanks Hannah! - they still brighten up our Easter basket every year

She always seems quite happy sat there in her little basket i always think.

This year she has gained a new little companion to keep her company down on the hearth. We made this little cutie!

We had to add to our lego collection for him! Daft I know but I like him.

Finally and of course definitely not least - I got this last night from my friend that I go to the gym with. It's a little egg hat! Well, it started off as a water bottle hat.

Soon made itself at home when I got back though and made one of my little eggs all snuggled up and cozy for the night

Thank you again to everyone that contributed to making my Easter celebrations special this year. I know it's probably not something that I should really encourage but I am really liking that at the minute Easter seems to be getting bigger. The Easter bunny seems to be making much more of an appearance in families that I know who have kids - he's almost getting to be as big as Santa in some cases. I like that it is a good time to see family too. I would really like to make it a fantastic excuse to be able to see one set of parents for one holiday (xmas) and the other for Easter each year. I would like it to be proper event. I did this year manage to see both sets of parents over the Easter weekend which was nice.

I hope that this week back at work isn't treating everyone too badly - I think even most of the schools are back now. Take care and I'll see you again real soon.