Gotta leave some for The Bunny!

After the Easter party at school today, McCanless and I were in the mood to do a bit of egg dying! (…and doesn’t everyone dye eggs in a Jasmine costume?) We were all set up and ready to go and realized that Mary Clare wanted in on the action, so we had to deter her for a while. Baby, 4-year-old, eggs and dye do not mix!

Two dozen plastic eggs and a bunny basket later, Mary Clare is occupied for the moment…

..one pink, one blue, one pink, one yellow, one pink, one purple, one pink, one pink…..

Okay, so by this point even the egg carton was getting boring…

McCanless loves hard-boiled eggs and I cannot remember an Easter when we didn’t eat the eggs immediately after dying them. (In fact, her teacher was amazed when she was the only brave volunteer in her class to eat a real egg recently.) Fortunately this year, I made more eggs than I usually do, so when McCanless ate her fill after dying them, we would have lots of left overs to hide, look at, do whatever you are supposed to do with left over Easter eggs!?! (Kids don’t send real eggs to school anymore as we did. Nowadays, kids take 12 plastic “stuffed” (with candy) eggs to school! I say you haven’t lived until you find a completely rotten egg on the playground!

As she was peeling a bright pink egg, a revelation came to her and with wide eyes, she exclaimed, “Mom! We have to save some to leave out for the Easter Bunny!” I wonder if he’ll take carrot juice with his eggs?

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