Easter Bunny

My grandchildren are lucky enough to have a set of grandparents who know the Easter Bunny personally. The went to see this rather large rabbit with their Mom and Dad and Staci's parents. The looks on the faces and the sparkle in the eyes of children young enough to still Believe is priceless.

This picture of Boston and Maddie coloring their Easter Eggs brought back memories of my own childhood. We didn't do the egg hunt thing, but we always colored eggs for the holiday. It was a great production of boiling eggs and of cups in a row on the kitchen table to hold the dye. I don't know what the coloring kits are like now, but ours had different colored tablets that looked like Sweet Tart candy. These were dissolved in hot water and vinegar, the vinegar being the catalyst that adhered the dye to the egg. There were wax pencils to draw a design on the egg, and when dyed, the design remained white. This was probably pretty primitive compared to what the grandkids did.

And there was always an Easter Basket full of goodies for us on Easter morning before we went to church. The chocolate bunnies were my favorite. Although we were supposed to leave the candy alone until after Easter dinner, the bunnies seemed to lose their ears before we left for Easter Services. Dad would tease us about the deaf bunnies in our baskets.

It is nice to see traditions carried on by the youngest generation.

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