Giggles Galore

That's the best way to describe how things went this past Easter weekend for a first (and long-awaited) family get together with the grandchildren and their mom. We'd been vaccinated over 2 weeks prior to our weekend reunion.

As expected and long-anticipated by us, there was the usual holiday event of egg coloring. While it had been a couple of years since we had last done this activity with both grands, they willingly obliged and joined in again. By way of a video visit, youngest granddaughter joined in as she and her mom colored eggs in PA.

Both grandkids have really grown since we last saw them in 2019, which seems such a long time ago, 16 months to be exact. Both have been distance learning at home for nearly a year and expect to return to classroom learning by this fall — he in 9th grade and she in 5th.

Because the outside weather, while sunny, was unseasonable chilly (this is New England), there were several hours spent playing indoor board games, including the above chess game between grandson and grandpa, which grandson won.

A photo request resulted in a series of very happy faces and showed how glad everyone was to see one another again.

Although we were not able to visit with other family members, these photos were sent. The top photos show youngest granddaughter. Not one, but two Easter bunnies visited my brother's NJ home to the delight of his granddaughter our great niece. Wearing her holiday finery, she posed with her grandparents. My brother also celebrated an Easter birthday.

We hope that your holidays had happy family moments. Hopefully, this was the just the first of more travels this year as it becomes easier and, of course, safer.