HADA 2015: Days 2-5

Okay, I am finally sitting down at the end of a whirlwind four days. The reason I started HADA early this year was that I knew I wouldn't get much done on Passov-easter weekend, and I didn't want to take so many days off so soon after starting. So, here we go, in point form again, for brevity:

Thursday:

• Finalize seder shopping list
• Get seder groceries
• Hard-boil eggs for seder
• Cook 9-pound brisket
• Make 4 gallons of chicken broth
• Park play date
• Go out for dinner (house full of food, and nothing to eat...)
• Make two desserts
• Burn one of the desserts, and make it all over again

Friday:

• A whole bunch of Girl Scout paperwork I had been putting off, and thought I had more time for
• Make 6 quarts of tzimmes
• Make 10 pounds of dried fruit and kalamata chicken
• Make potato kugel
• Make a third dessert
• Transport everything to the church
• Slice brisket
• Reheat everything
• Make 7 pounds of charoset
• Make 50 matzah balls
• Passover Seder (everything was great!)
• Foot washing

Saturday:

• Matzo brei for breakfast
• I actually don't remember anything about the rest of the morning, except that I was in recovery mode
• Nap with the baby
• Go to the DMV to get my new driver's license photo
• Shopping for Easter bunny treasures
• Leftovers for dinner
• Actually managed a proper HADA hour cleaning the third floor play room, so the Easter Bunny would be able to hide eggs and baskets up there
• Stuff eggs and set up Easter egg hunt

Sunday:

• Supervise Easter egg hunting
• Deal with ant situation that developed when some ants discovered the cookie-filled eggs
• Get everyone dressed and out the door for church
• Head to family Easter party an hour away
• Head home
• Not-leftovers for dinner (we'll be back to eating leftovers again tomorrow, but we wanted a little break)
• Bath night for all three kids