Easter

This Easter was spent mostly around the kitchen table decorating bright eggs and dyeing our fingers garish colors as well as the eggs themselves. The kids are especially fond of Easter, as they are especially fond of anything that allows them to make a mess with bright colors and which so closely resembles making art but without paper. There too, for both kids and adults alike, is the anticipation of retrieving the once-white egg which is reborn a different hue. This Easter was different in that the children would not be spending Easter morning at home, but instead with their father.

In view of this, we decided to celebrate Easter lunch on Saturday with family,
preceded by an Easter Treasure Hunt. Gerard carefully drew a map on faded parchment paper and we used scraps to enclose clues that would be scattered along the trail. Our favorite clue was the bright orange egg, holding the last clue, that rested with a faded statue of an oriental man seated at a writing desk.