Easter 2006

so we colored eggs w/ the minimalist 6 color kit. They came out very pretty & only lost a few out of 36 to a certain 2 year old's insistence on dropping them into the mugs.


not bad for 6 dyes & 4 kids & 36 eggs 

I'm pretty darn pooped right now & am having difficulty w/ my fine motor skills & my eyes are feeling sleeeeeeeepy... the usual, staying up til 3:30am to clean after filling the baskets. Of course the girls woke around 7am & I cajoled them into snuggling until 8 so I could get a couple more winks & so that G could hide the goodies for them to find. And then cooking for 8 hours today...and that was only the sides. Thank you V for the honeybaked ham & smoked turkey. I think I would need two ovens & 6 burners to get all the food cooked. We had: sweet potato cassarole, corn cassarole, asparagus, pop overs, ham, turkey, deviled eggs, baby red potatoes w/ garlic & rosemary, veggies & ranch dip, shirley temples, and pineapple upside down cake w/ ice cream. Needless to say, we were/are all stuffed. Well worth the effort!


yummy Easter goodness 

So Maddie today surmised that indeed mom & dad are the ones who fill the easter baskets. Because she saw the Easter grass in the rubbermaid bin where I keep the Easter baskets. I so don't want her to quit the magical thinking yet! I told her that I keep the grass with the baskets b/c it would be wasteful to throw it out. Just like we don't get new baskets every year, why should we need new grass every year? She hasn't said anything since. sigh....