After eating a whole lot of yummy food, we released the eager children into the back yard for the egg hunt. It was so funny to see them run like there was no tomorrow, panic in their eyes at the thought that there just wasn't enough candy for everybody...only one gallon each! And I loved that two-year old Emma helped me hide the candy, with each egg or bag saying, "I find that later..." and then she went to a completely different spot in the yard when the hunt was on and didn't find any of the candy she helped me hide!
After the candy was all picked up, the kids retrieved to the house to induce themselves into sugar comas while most of the adults headed to the garden. I was worried that this was going to be mopey and sad and that's not what I wanted at all. Though Jakobi was born at rest, he has still brought so many people together and somehow has caused so much happiness that it is awe-inspiring. I wanted this to be the same. And it was. It was exactly everything that I hoped it would be. Lots of friends and family gathered in the square that Mae and I had outlined the day before with bricks. Hand spades were passed around and everybody took turns planting bulbs, playing practical jokes on each other and laughing and loving.
After everybody left and the house got quiet, I headed back out to the garden. I sat on the bench right next to it and really have never felt so peaceful. Of course, the sixty-degree weather and warm sun beating down on my face may have helped. I took some pictures and just can't wait for the garden to bloom.
Before bedtime, I took a nice bubble bath. Right next to my arm, formed in bubbles, was a perfect smiley face. As the water rippled, the smiley face stretched and the mouth turned into a perfect heart. This is about the hundredth 'sign' that I've seen in the past ten days. Maybe all of this stuff happened before and I never noticed it...but I'm pretty sure it didn't.
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