Easter 2009

I think celebration times of the year such as Christmas and Easter are so much better when you have small children around. They haven’t been corrupted by the cynicism of adults or the commercialisation of the event (both things linked I feel). So they enjoy the dressing up, the singing and the receiving of the presents. This year she did very well for Easter Eggs from both sets of grandparents and us so we had to figure out a way to give them to her without just giving them to her. And as we were back at my parents they joined in with the games and really made the whole thing more special.

When I was young a tradition was that the church bells would ring and spray out little chocolate eggs which my sister and I would then go out and collect from around the garden. So we did that this year and Meg thought it was the best game ever. She and Granny went around collecting the eggs in the frosty morning. Then in the afternoon we went and hid lots of small model chicks around the garden and got Meg to run around and find them. For every five she collected she got one of the big Easter Eggs we had got her. As she hadn’t seen the big eggs before this she thought this game was even better than the morning!

Now the only thing is to make sure that she doesn’t OD on chocolate with the amount she has. Or that I get too fat from helping her eat the eggs!