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Easter

Posted on | March 23, 2008 |

Easter is one of those holidays that I don’t get in the holiday mood. In my opinion, if there was no Easter I would be okay with it. When I was younger, Easter was great a basket full of candy then onto my grandparent’s for an egg hunt with either money or candy inside the eggs. Sometimes the weather would be warm and sunny or cold and gray. Easter when I was a child always had fond memories and always will.

The more I aged the more Easter lost it’s appeal. There were a couple of years in between leaving home and before my daughter was born that our Easter celebration consisted of the ham dinner. I even worked some Easters. Perhaps the biggest thing about Easter is the feeling of spring in the air. No matter what Easter day is like the warm weather will come upon us and the rain will fall and the grass will grow.

We colored eggs yesterday. She asked me why are we are coloring eggs. I don’t know, I told her, it’s just what you do at Easter. I don’t hide the dyed eggs, chances are we would never find them all and I would forget where I put them until it rotted. So I don’t know why dyed eggs. I did as a child and I suppose I am looking for a  tradition to make Easter a fond memory for my daughter even it is simple as the two of us dying eggs in many colors; having stained fingers because the egg dipper never works right and the egg always seems to roll off the table spoon and it is so much easier to use your fingers. Perhaps it is because she wants to do things herself and instead of handing me the freshly dyed egg, it falls from her hand to the kitchen floor and cracks. I don’t know but they are there now.

For those who celebrate Easter have a nice one.

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  1. Chica
    March 23rd, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

    I am having the same problem with Easter. I probably liked it when I was a child, but already at the age of 8 or 9 the egg hunt was just appearing stupid to me. Maybe it will change once I got children… :-)
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  2. art
    March 24th, 2008 @ 8:50 am

    Haha…same here…i agree with you Chica. As time flies by…it gets a little awkward dont you think?…:)

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