Posted By AmyD. on April 10, 2007

I’m posting so freaking late today that I almost wonder if it is worth posting at all.

Every year we dye eggs the night before Easter and every year I hope that I don’t end up with baskets of brown eggs because the kids couldn’t resist dipping them “just one more time…”

Over the last couple of years the kids have gone from being thrilled to dye eggs, to trying to be as artistic as possible with their eggs.

(God, help me, I know… I’m flying very close to mommy-blogger land here)

Although, I did have to fight with Ethan. He is too old for the egg hunt but apparently not to old to try and screw it up. He was attempting to make camo eggs, lucky enough I caught him in time and thwarted yet another of his devious plans.

So, instead he helped hide the eggs and put them all out of reach of Kate. This plan bit him in the ass because I made him her personal assistant since he could reach them.

He did get his way in one instance. We didn’t hide his prize egg:

Every year we do an egg count and every year at the end of the hunt we are always a couple of eggs short. This year we finally found out why. Apparently, Molly (the dog, not the cat) sneaks in and finds the low lying eggs and eats them… whole. No trace is left and she must have sat there for years finding it very amusing as the humans accused one another of not remembering where they hid the eggs they were responsible for.

By the time I shot this last picture everyone was VERY annoyed at having to pretend they liked being in such close proximity to one another. Can you tell?

Categories: Holidays
Tags: Captured for Posterity, Holidays, Mom Stuff