I hope that your spring is going well, and I hope that you’re having a nice Easter weekend. For our part it’s been quite nice. We just got home from Easter morning service, a ham and potatoes are baking in the oven, and the kids are beginning to plot how they will work their way through all the candy they got yesterday at the egg hunt events we attended.
First on our itinerary was the traditional Easter egg hunt for the blind that is sponsored by the Qwest Telecom Pioneers, a wonderful group of retired telephone company employees.
This event, held in Renton, gathers families from around the state with blind and low vision children.
Pradeep, our legally blind son, begins asking after the event the moment he hears that Easter is coming up, usually in February.
You can see by the pictures that I’ve posted below that he and the other children had a great time. Particularly meaningful are the ‘beeping’ eggs that are put out for the fully blind children.
It’s quite heartwarming to watch them zero in on the sounds that those eggs are making and pick them up. They are exchanged by volunteers for candy, which blind kids love as much as anyone.
After the Renton event we went to Nikki Johanson’s Pheasant Run farm on Clear Creek Road, like several hundred other local folks.
I think that Nikki was rather overwhelmed by the turnout, and although I saw some long faces over not finding eggs, I saw many other happy children and parents dropping off food donations, collecting candy filled plastic eggs, and touring the farm to get in touch with a local agricultural treasure.
And now it’s time to take the ham out of the oven and do our best to consume it. With a family our size that shouldn’t be too much of a task. Tomorrow work and the campaign resume, but for today we rest, worship and enjoy family.
Happy Easter!
