Good morning and TGIF!
Fairly easy questions this morning, but there are two......since Easter is on Sunday:
Do you color Easter eggs? Do you put Easter baskets together for your children?
We used to color eggs when our son was young. That was a big thing for us to do on the Saturday before Easter; we always spent the afternoon coloring Easter eggs. We used the old Paas coloring kits; I guess they're still around. A couple times, DS and I tried using onion skins and such to color them that way. After Easter, I always used the eggs up in egg salad or pickled eggs.
We don't color Easter eggs anymore. But I'll be making pickled red beet eggs tonight to have with our Easter dinner on Sunday.
My parents used to do Easter baskets for us, complete with all kinds of Easter candy and our colored eggs (at home we would color three dozen eggs, there was usually a dozen for each of the three of us). There would usually be a big chocolate bunny in the center of each basket. We did egg hunts a couple of times.....outside when it was warm enough. My aunt and uncle didn't have children of their own, so they always tended to spoil the three of us kids at holidays. We always received big, beautiful Easter baskets from them too.
We always put together an Easter basket for our son, too. One year, I remember he awakened around 4:00 in the morning and ate his entire basket! (We had a rather sick son that day from eating too much candy.) For a few years after that, we hid his basket in our bedroom closet. As he got older, his Easter baskets got smaller, but he always got a basket up until he got married. The first Easter that he was married, he called me and said, "Hey! Where's my Easter basket??!"
(As he got older and his baskets became smaller, we would make up the difference with a gift certificate to a local book store. Our son has always loved books and reading.)
Fairly easy questions this morning, but there are two......since Easter is on Sunday:
Do you color Easter eggs? Do you put Easter baskets together for your children?
We used to color eggs when our son was young. That was a big thing for us to do on the Saturday before Easter; we always spent the afternoon coloring Easter eggs. We used the old Paas coloring kits; I guess they're still around. A couple times, DS and I tried using onion skins and such to color them that way. After Easter, I always used the eggs up in egg salad or pickled eggs.
We don't color Easter eggs anymore. But I'll be making pickled red beet eggs tonight to have with our Easter dinner on Sunday.
My parents used to do Easter baskets for us, complete with all kinds of Easter candy and our colored eggs (at home we would color three dozen eggs, there was usually a dozen for each of the three of us). There would usually be a big chocolate bunny in the center of each basket. We did egg hunts a couple of times.....outside when it was warm enough. My aunt and uncle didn't have children of their own, so they always tended to spoil the three of us kids at holidays. We always received big, beautiful Easter baskets from them too.
We always put together an Easter basket for our son, too. One year, I remember he awakened around 4:00 in the morning and ate his entire basket! (We had a rather sick son that day from eating too much candy.) For a few years after that, we hid his basket in our bedroom closet. As he got older, his Easter baskets got smaller, but he always got a basket up until he got married. The first Easter that he was married, he called me and said, "Hey! Where's my Easter basket??!"
