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Easter Eggs

Today let’s talk Easter eggs!

It was so much fun to get up on Easter morning and hunt for Easter eggs. My mom would secretly hard-boil and dye the eggs and hide them outside on the patio (we lived in South Florida).

One year there was an awful stink a few weeks after Easter.  You guessed it…one egg was never found.

I also loved eating the eggs for the next few weeks.

But I didn’t follow this tradition with my kids. Here’s why…

Egg shells are porous. You can see this when you peel a dyed Easter egg. There is dye on the white part of the egg. It makes it fun and pretty. But as we discussed with the candy, they are linking artificial colors with behavior problems. I have seen this with my own kids…especially with the red dyes.

One way to go is to use the plastic eggs. They are making them with all sorts of colorful designs now. You can put a coin, sticker, Cheerio, or other small trinket inside.

I did something a little different. When the kids were just starting the Easter egg hunt phase, I bought two dozen decorated wooden eggs. We would put the same eggs out year after year.

We could put them out the night before without worrying about rain or other egg-lovers getting to them. The kids would collect them in the morning. Since there were two dozen, we knew when they were done. Then they would sit on the table as a decoration for about a week and then disappear until next year.

The kids never questioned why the Easter bunny would hide the same eggs year after year. I guess they just figured that is how it worked.

Of course, they probably didn’t realize that they were the exact same eggs because one year after Easter, they, along with the neighbor children, were seen rolling them down the storm drain in front of our house.

No one could understand why I was so upset!

The Easter bunny then switched to plastic.

For those why are “dye”-hard fans of the colored Easter eggs, we’ll talk about how to color them tomorrow.

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