April 17th, 2006 | Published in Blog Thoughts | 8 Comments
Easter has always been one of Beth’s favorite special days. It might have to do with the fact that her family has a tradition of putting cash into the Easter Eggs. I still remember the looks on the faces of the triplets when I was made aware of this fact. You’d think junior high kids wouldn’t cry and complain when someone faster and stronger found all the eggs!
The last six years we’ve never had the same group of people at our house for Easter. In case you were here yesterday, our group this time was perhaps the best group ever. We celebrated and enjoy being with a different group of people each year. The more the merrier is always the motto for Easter.
Beth’s assistant coaches came over for lunch and we had fun talking about Easter traditions. One of the girls was from the Sacramento area and it seems her family also put cash in the Easter eggs. Must be a California thing.
Our kids are growing out of the Easter egg hunt. Maybe it’s because we have yet to put cash in the eggs. I do remember when we would spend the next week hiding the plastic eggs through out the house. The kids would spend days hiding and searching for the eggs.
The memorable experience this year has been the Star Wars Easter egg characters. The egg is a perfect shape for R2 and Yoda.
So let’s here about the fun Easter traditions you remember, the traditions you’ve kept and perhaps even those you wished your family still observed.
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April 17th, 2006 at 11:06 am (#)
Good Friday marked the day, after which, you should be able to put plants and seeds safely in the ground without worrying they’d freeze and die. And at my house, growing up, Easter was the day that you got to wear white shoes for the first time since last fall. If you were lucky and got a new outfit, you had white gloves and a hat, too. And sometimes, dresses made out of NYLON. If it was a warm Easter, those things got HOT! Imagine hunting for eggs in a get-up like that! Still and all, Easter brings fun memories.
BTW, you were not supposed to incriminate me!!
April 17th, 2006 at 11:29 am (#)
Sorry Judy, I had to save my own neck!
April 17th, 2006 at 11:53 am (#)
Hope my kids don’t read your blog today, as they’ll want that retroactive cash from the eggs over the past 13 years!
April 17th, 2006 at 11:55 am (#)
Hey, wait a minute!!! When I was a kid, there was NO MONEY in the Easter Eggs, just EGG! Did my parents start putting money in eggs after I left home?
I am really upset.
We do search for eggs. This year Son 2 and Daughter hid eggs for other little kids at church. Quite fun! I’d like for us to hide the little kids next year and let the eggs look for them.
I can’t get over the money in the eggs thing‚Ķ Although Mom made sure there was a wonderful Easter basket for us on Sunday AM.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:33 pm (#)
I’ll never forget discovering that crisp bill — while in college, and at my in-laws!
April 17th, 2006 at 4:47 pm (#)
Coolest. Eggs. Ever.
We hid easter eggs around the house. One year we hid one inside the piano and immediately lost track of it. I think we found it in mid-May.
We followed our noses.
April 18th, 2006 at 9:00 am (#)
We’ve stuffed and hid eggs for the last few years at church. We had a huge turnout on Sunday. One of our deacons dressed up as the Easter Bunny.
Barb started a tradition that she carries on even as our son is almost 16. She takes flour and makes “bunny footprints” from the floor to the table to Steven’s Easter Basket.
I like the “egg-money” idea. Can you bring some of those to Greg’s so we can hunt those cool California eggs?
April 18th, 2006 at 11:47 am (#)
Mine growing up was about two things: chocolate and weirdly colored deviled eggs for lunch. We’ve kept the chocolate and deviled eggs as part of our family tradition, but we have added a pancake breakfast to the mix. My wife and I didn’t even realize it was a tradition until one of our kids asked about it. My wife makes pancakes in the shape of bunnies and eggs. The eggs are pretty easy, but she works hard to get the bunnies to turn out right.