He is Alive in My Heart!

I often get asked about our participation in the commercial aspects of ‘religious’ holidays.  Example, people look at me crazy at Christmas because we don’t put a gazillion gifts under the tree or perpetuate Santa Claus.  We are not anti-Santa…we sing songs about Santa, we’ve taken pictures with Santa, and we watch the classic Santa cartoons.  But only as a backdrop.  We are careful to put the focus on the reason for the season: The birth of Jesus Christ!

Same thing with Easter.  I can’t tell you how many people looked at me with a sour face when I answered their questions: no, we aren’t coloring eggs or buying Easter baskets.  It’s  hard to explain that no, we are not anti-Easter Bunny but that at Kali’s age we want her to first learn the true meaning of Easter: to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ!  Later on, sure we’ll color eggs and put together a basket for her...because it's just fun.  This year we had a small Easter Egg hunt in our home – we recycled the plastic eggs that she collected at the preschool’s hunt on Thursday, dumped out most of the candy and refilled them with money (candy is still not big in our home).  But this was only after coming home from church on Sunday.

And evidently, she is taking it all in!  Last night, she started to tell us all of the things she knows about “Jejus”…without any solicitation from us.  Here are some of the highlights that she told us:

• “Jejus is going to make me sixteen and then twenty-one-forty and then forty-one pounds and I’m going to grow up and be big!  Jejus is going to do all of that for me!”
• “Jejus is not in the cave anymore.  He is alive in our hearts!” (places 2 hands over her heart)
• “Jejus carries us when our knees hurt.”
• “Jejus loves all of us!”
• *singing* “My God is so big, so strong and so mighty…there’s nothing my God cannot do!” (a song that she learned at preschool)

How cute is that!  Moments like this is exactly why I blog!  Gotta keep a diary of all this cuteness! 

After church services we took some photos since we were all matching and looking like a family!  *lol*   I didn’t realize that my hair had puffed up like a Q-Tip though!! *sigh*  Oh well, at least our girls looked gorgeous!

 

 

 

Kalissa being a comedienne caused a sudden burst of laughter!  Perfect for some candid shots!