Days 252-254 Easter Sunday!

Easter Sunday...new Easter dresses, new matching shoes, baskets filled with chocolate bunnies, jump ropes, books, and colorful Easter eggs. Don't forget the Easter egg hunt, ham and potatoes for dinner, and a snooze in front of a TV show
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But what, really, is Easter all about? I can tell you it's far more than a floppy-eared bunny hopping down the bunny trail...it's about Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for MY sins (for YOUR sins), and His powerful, never-before-seen resurrection Sunday!
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Easter Sunday...let's try this again. Sunday morning sunrise service. Breakfast of hot pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage links and orange juice while conversing with a fellow church member. Sunday School lesson about Jesus' ultimate act of love for me (for you)...and church service.
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Actually, the church service was replaced with our first attempt at the church's nursery room. Six toddlers and just as many helpers...we did our best.
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Then it was lunch at a church family's home, and a long car drive out of town. I'm in trial for the next few days, and I needed to get to my hotel tonight to begin trial at 8:00 a.m. sharp on Monday.
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I'm actually sitting in my hotel room now. I was assigned a room right off of the indoor pool. The girls and I enjoyed a refreshing swim this afternoon while my husband dozed in front of the hotel's television. Then we all enjoyed a fried chicken and jojos meal from the local supermarket, and the girls and my husband were back in the car and drove the hour-and-a-half distance back to our home.
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I'm exhausted. It isn't even 9:00 p.m., but my body is ready for bed.
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Thank You, Lord, for this wonderful Easter Day...the first Easter Day we shared as a believing family, the first Easter Sunday my husband was excited to get up at the crack of dawn and head to church to praise our Lord and Savior.
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I want to thank you, Lord, for leading us and guiding us. Can I bemoan one more thing on such a joyous day? I hate to travel away from my children and my husband. I hate sleeping in hotel rooms that smell funny and make funny noises all night. I hate to kiss my loved ones good-bye so that I can spend time in court. Don't get me wrong, Lord...I am SO thankful for my job. You were so good to provide it in the first place. But I am complaining to you that I miss my family, miss my bed, miss snuggling up next to my husband. I miss the sounds MY home makes.
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Please, Lord...make a way for me not to have to travel away from my family. It's really, really hard on a working mom to be away from her loved ones. And please, Lord...make my fingers work strong and hard tomorrow so that they don't konk out and ache by 3:00 p.m. and I still have hours in my trial left to report. And then get up and do it all over again the next day. But I DO thank you for the income it brings in to help support my dear family.
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Be with my family tonght as we are apart one from another. Amen.