We had a lovely Easter weekend visiting my family down in North Carolina. It was an uneventful 12 hour drive down and back, done non-stop with food in the car. While we were there we packed a lot in!

We stayed with my middle sister and her daughter (along with dog, Suzie) in their new home, which we were glad to get to see, and we were the first to sleep on the new bed in their new guest room. Our older daughter from California flew in for the occasion and stayed with my other (oldest) sister. You can see us three sisters above.

On Friday we went to Duke gardens, and I’ll show those photos tomorrow. On Saturday, we made gingerbread Easter egg cookies, and spent the day with everybody at our nephew’s family’s nice home; it was our first time there as well. Then on Sunday, after visits to each sister’s respective churches, we met at my older sister’s home for Easter dinner, as well as to celebrate her granddaughter’s birthday.

We were missing our younger daughter, but otherwise, we haven’t been altogether since Thanksgiving 2019, just before the pandemic. It was so wonderful to be together again, and I’m grateful for such a loving family, that genuinely cares about one another.

We left Connecticut in coats and gloves with barely buds out on the trees, and drove into spring, arriving to leaves, and needing only shirtsleeves, only to reverse the process a few days later back to the cold again. It was interesting to see all the gradations between!