What a busy week that we have had since my last post!

   My hubby went on a business trip for the first time.  This was a little stressful for my two youngest who are every much 'Daddy's Kids.'  We worked through it, though, because I'm a Mommy, that's what we do.  In the words of the famous Tim Gunn, we "Make it work!"

    This week we are getting ready for Easter!  This is my kids favorite holiday!  We always go to our Aunt's cabin in the Smoky Mountains for the day and eat, hike, play in the river, and have a GREAT time.  This year, we will head up and stay in a cabin and tour Cade's Cove, go to Dollywood, and celebrate our favorite holiday.

    I wanted to share a little Easter project with you that I did one year for the kids.  I truly enjoy filling their Easter baskets the night before Easter and seeing how excited they get about their treats.  What I do not enjoy, is vacuuming the 'grass' from the baskets out of my carpet for the next month!  Has anyone else had this problem?

    This was my solution and it was wonderful:







This was a great project for the kids!  The instructions are pretty simple....

Supplies:

• Easter Baskets
• clear plastic planter bases (can find them most anywhere, they are in the lawn and garden are and are generally used to sit flower pots on to catch overflow.  They generally cost less than $1)
• potting soil
• Grass seed

Directions:

• Place plastic insert into Easter basket
• fill with potting soil
• cover top of soil generously with grass seed
• add a little more potting soil over the seed

Since you used grass, it grows pretty quickly!  I would plant about a week and a half at least before Easter.  If you see that your grass is too tall, my kids enjoyed 'mowing' their baskets with safety scissors!

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making their baskets