moments

The next few days I'm likely to field several times the question "did you have a good Easter?" It is fab that people are interested but leaves me with the dilemma of how to respond. I had good practice at this after Christmas (which was also challenging) and know that I can in the moment choose what makes most sense. Completely avoiding answering the question myself and just going straight for - "did you? what did you do?" to get the attention away. The lie of "yes thanks" because that's what people want to hear and there's not time to say otherwise. Or what I often went for after Christmas, the telling "there were some lovely moments thanks". Because that is the truth, even when things are not great there are always lovely moments if we look for them. And I was grateful for the response of the first person to ask yesterday, cos when I said there were lovely moments I was pressed on what they were, which got me to focus on what had been lovely about the day - mainly appreciation from people for little things I'd done. I do like appreciation :)
All of this has me thinking of whether I can modify the opening gambit - what question I'd like to ask. I do think it's a bit harder to say "no" to a question so maybe I can get in first with a more open "how was your Easter?" I know I'm still more likely to get a stock response, but maybe it will give other people a bit more wiggle room to be honest if they need to.
And I'm not working all day today, I will take the afternoon off, so hopefully there's still time yet to have many more lovely moments :)