Oh, and Easter is over

[conuly]

We had an egg dying party on Friday. Evangeline took her nap (that wasn't the original plan, but it was best), and Ana and a friend dyed well more than five dozen eggs. See, I started with five dozen (60), and then added a few from downstairs (so now we're at about 64), and then they brought over eggs (a whole dozen - I had asked them not to), so... yeah.

I pawned off several eggs on our guests as they left, leaving us with only 4 dozen. (Only!) They, in turn, passed us a box of cookies (I insisted they take the second box home - those cookies were in scary colors) and stickers. Curse them!

While the kids napped today, I ran around hiding eggs and Jenn made a list. Every one of the 47 eggs (Xiggy, who is visiting, ate one) got hidden and then found. For 20 minutes, it was *runrunrun* A EGG! A EGG! IN THE FREEZER/SHOE/SINK/TOILET PAPER ROLL! *runrunrun* up and down the house. At times, I resorted to dropping hints. (Why don't you PUT daddy's HAT in the FREEZER now? Why don't you COLOR with the CRAYONS for a second? Do you need to put your SHOES on???)

It was great fun for all. Apparently, people give their kids gifts on Easter, in big elaborate baskets? I never did that growing up, and it seems really weird to me. All we ever got were eggs, some jellybeans, a few chocolates, and, occasionally, a basket. Not a basket of toys. Just a basket. Y'know, to put our eggs in. I wonder if Easter baskets are what happened when people stopped celebrating May Day...? Anyway, I don't see the point when the kids are just as thrilled to run around and get eggs, and one of them doesn't even *like* eggs.

Now I just have to find a way to use up 46 eggs. (I ate one too.) Hardboiled. Egads. Ideas?

Comments

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Egg salad!

Or deviled eggs, but really, 46 eggs is an awful lot of eggs to devil. Better to make salad.

[conuly]

Well, I *do* have lots of berbere right now. But I was hoping for new ideas. (Not a fan of egg salad, and you're right, it's too many to devil them all!)

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

chop them up and throw them in lettuce salads. of course, that will use 1 egg per person so that's a slow process. egg salad sandwiches uses a lot more of course. and i think the american egg board's website has instructions for freezing them if you are worried of getting sick of them now.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

My mom made us Easter baskets from before I can remember until I moved to New Mexico in 2006. Generally speaking they had some pastel M&Ms, jelly beans, a chocolate bunny, maybe a chocolate egg, and some small practical-yet-spring-y gifts like lip gloss, hand cream, little packs of tissues with flowers on them, etc. Maybe a very cheap toy like a wind-up bunny or a stuffed chick that chirped when it sat on your hand. We decorated our own baskets from a plain basket and a roll of ribbon, and used the same one every year.

We always put the found eggs back into the cartons, it's the easiest way to count them (my parents' house is too small to lose one; we never did even without lists). And we got an egg in our lunch box every day at school, but Ana and Eva are too little for that. (Also, the absolute *max* was 1 dozen per kid, and my mom made deviled eggs for Easter dinner—with the whole extended family—with at least half of them.)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Potato salad. And I don't know how either of these are made, but would scotch eggs or pickled eggs be eaten?

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

I don't get the prefab baskets, either. I thought the whole point was to run around looking for the hidden eggs.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Tea eggs are made from hard boiled so maybe you could make some of those? There's always egg salad and devilled eggs.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Egg salad!

Or deviled eggs, but really, 46 eggs is an awful lot of eggs to devil. Better to make salad.

[conuly]

Well, I *do* have lots of berbere right now. But I was hoping for new ideas. (Not a fan of egg salad, and you're right, it's too many to devil them all!)

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

chop them up and throw them in lettuce salads. of course, that will use 1 egg per person so that's a slow process. egg salad sandwiches uses a lot more of course. and i think the american egg board's website has instructions for freezing them if you are worried of getting sick of them now.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

My mom made us Easter baskets from before I can remember until I moved to New Mexico in 2006. Generally speaking they had some pastel M&Ms, jelly beans, a chocolate bunny, maybe a chocolate egg, and some small practical-yet-spring-y gifts like lip gloss, hand cream, little packs of tissues with flowers on them, etc. Maybe a very cheap toy like a wind-up bunny or a stuffed chick that chirped when it sat on your hand. We decorated our own baskets from a plain basket and a roll of ribbon, and used the same one every year.

We always put the found eggs back into the cartons, it's the easiest way to count them (my parents' house is too small to lose one; we never did even without lists). And we got an egg in our lunch box every day at school, but Ana and Eva are too little for that. (Also, the absolute *max* was 1 dozen per kid, and my mom made deviled eggs for Easter dinner—with the whole extended family—with at least half of them.)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Potato salad. And I don't know how either of these are made, but would scotch eggs or pickled eggs be eaten?

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

I don't get the prefab baskets, either. I thought the whole point was to run around looking for the hidden eggs.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Tea eggs are made from hard boiled so maybe you could make some of those? There's always egg salad and devilled eggs.