Tim's kids will be with their mother on Easter, so we had an egg hunt at the church this evening. Tim and I hid eggs around the clearing on the porch side of the new building. I took a certain devious pleasure in watching a mob of six or seven kids scour an area of the clearing where I had done the hiding only to have them leave behind about four eggs. Kevin got those, with a little help.
Lexie baked sugar cookies last night shaped vaguely egg-like. Tonight we took them and frosting and colored sugar crystals to church for the kids to decorate. They'll be our contribution to the pot-luck Easter Sunday breakfast.
I haven't made any Easter baskets this year. I did buy your dad a lemon cream pie yesterday from Flying Saucer Pie Company. I figured yellow was sort of Easter-y, in the commercial sense. I was going to buy myself an Easter dress this year. Haven't done that in ages. Instead, I got laryngitis. Kind of hard to shop when you can't talk.
When I was a kid, Mama would boil up about 4 dozen eggs. (There were a bunch of us kids.)While they cooled, we would boil more water for the dye made with food coloring. We commandeered just about every shallow coffee cup and bowl in the house, poured a little vinegar in each, added boiling water and then the different color dyes. the coloring then began as we turned eggs over and over with a spoon in the colored water.
I also remember baking an Easter bunny cake when you were a little boy, John. I baked two round cake layers. One served as the round bunny face. From the other, I cut out ears in long, pointy ovals, leaving a bow-shaped piece that served as well, the bow, under the bunny's chin. With coconut, icing, candies and good old food coloring, I assembled the Easter bunny cake. Fun. Maybe I'll do it again soon.
Mom