Happy Easter 2019 - Day 149

I want to wish you all the very best Easter. May it bring you Hope, Joy, Love and gratefulness. We have had the best day as our first Easter as pony owners. I am so thankful to these two boys for making it such a happy day.

After a fun filled Easter egg hunt on Saturday at the yard J enjoyed a picnic with his friend and co pony sitters club member and some of the yard cats. They both went for a lovely hack - which I felt at a disadvantage being on two feet! It really got my mind whirring and wondering about another four legged friend lol.





It was a glorious and relaxing day.

Sadly that evening J came down with a sickness bug but was determined he felt well enough on Easter Sunday lunchtime after a long lie in to travel up to Wiltshire to our friends farm.


It was the first Easter Sunday Service we have ever missed.

I cherish my church family as dearly as I cherish my own flesh and blood.

Tentatively we travelled the two and half hours to our calm and happy place in the Cotswolds and made it to our friends Easter BBQ. There we were greeted with their three ponies, two dogs, two rabbits and the newest addition to the family; Stevie - the blind and epileptic little lamb whom stole our hearts.





As much as I thought I had dodged the sickness bug I sadly came over feeling a little queasy just as I made it to the local farm and tack shop. I managed to make it through the rest of the day relatively unscathed and grabbed a belated birthday present for the boy B and some show jumping jodhpurs for J.

Sadly I had to stop on the way home due to illness and there is nothing quite like driving on the M4 with a fleecy blanket in 25degree heat with a bucket on your lap. Too graphic?

I spent the next day in bed and slept from 9.30am until 2.15pm and could have slept all night too but I wanted to help J with homework and ensure he was feeling tip top again.

I hope that you all had as much fun as we did this Easter - sans the sickness of course.

Do you have any seasonal traditions?

KJB
xxx

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