An Egg-straordinary Easter

This may have been the best Easter I can remember. The day before, the weather was warm and sunny, so Toe and I went into the back yard and re-potted some plants, played in the dirt, and had a picnic.

 That evening, Toe colored Easter eggs.

The spiral was mine. The rest were Toe's.

 The Easter Bunny came to our house and hid the eggs Toe had colored and left a lovely basket. When we went to our friends' house for brunch, we discovered that the Easter Bunny had been there too and had left eggs there for Toe to find among the daffodils. It was really wonderful. There, the bunny had left some decorated hard-boiled eggs and some candy-filled plastic ones. The plastic shells and real eggs went into the basket. The candy was stuffed into Toe's pockets until they could bulge no further.

 We had a wonderful brunch with M and R and then J went to work and the rest of us went out onto the lawn and played Bocce (which does have an Easter feel to it, when you think of it).  Then on to Mom's house for Easter part 3. Toe and Mom made "Bunny salads" - a real 1950's treat. A canned pear half on a bed of cottage cheese with marshmallow ears and tail and a maraschino cherry nose. Surrounded by jelly bellys. It was actually pretty tasty. Then Toe snuggled in and read stories with Mom.

 The weather was perfect, the adventures were age-appropriate, the company was delightful, it was a relaxing, happy day. Hope your Easter was as joyful (and Beck, sorry yours was really not this year...).