Reflections on Easter

This is referring to the Easter Bunny Easter not the religious Easter. It's no fun without kids or grand kids! Yesterday may be the first Holiday I've spent with just my husband! This is going to take some getting used to. We were so desperate that we even dyed eggs on Saturday. By the way when I had the solution ready to begin coloring the eggs, I called Opa in to the dining room to dye. He didn't think that was at all funny. We even got the Easter decorations and put them all out. So the house looked very festive and I suppose that helped some. But the thing is you think to all the family traditions you have. We always hid the 4 kid's baskets not just the eggs. Believe me you have to get inventive after you've used the dryer and the oven. Fortunately being a Navy family, we kept moving houses so there were always new nooks and crannies.

Also we carried on my dad's tradition of dressing up in new clothes for THE EASTER PARADE. He was affected by the Judy Garland movie, The Easter Parade. One year I even knit a yellow dress for Susan ( VP now of Nanny Poppinz} to wear. It was a masterpiece of cable and popcorn stitches. I also inherited a stuffed bunny that was hollow inside that my dad filled with jelly beans. He was brought out every Easter.
The bunny is pretty bedraggled these days as my dad got it from his dad and we think he got him from Germany. This year we had no jelly beans, peeps or chocolate bunnies because Opa is on a diet. Maybe that's why I am depressed! Yep you definitely need some kids around on these Holidays!