Easter was always a fun holiday growing up and it still is. Despite my adult status, I still get a basket with candy from my parents every year. I enjoy returning the favor and this year included a 16 ounce gummy rabbit for my Jujyfruit-loving Dad.
How big is a 16 ounce gummy bunny? It’s taller than my Avaya IP Office phone!
Some of my favorite memories of Easter were the hunts for baskets and eggs. Mom would hide our baskets and we had to follow clues to find them. One year, in all my obnoxious teenage glory, I proclaimed that my basket was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy to find.
Mom took this into consideration when hiding my basket the following year. Hours after I started my quest, I gave in… exhausted from a thorough shake-down of the house. She finally revealed its location to me; in my Dad’s workroom (gross), in the trashcan (even more gross) under the bag of trash (eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!).
I never complained again.
After baskets were found, the hunting continued at my Grandma’s house down the street. All my aunts, uncles and cousins came into town and my uncles hid plastic eggs all over the back yard for all us kids to search for. As we were diving under bushes and lifting up rocks, my Uncle Tom would follow us around and torment us. “You know one of the plastic eggs has a twenty dollar bill in it right?” or “I think I see the money egg over there…”
Promises of cold hard cash added even more pressure to the situation and created chaos in the yard. Elbows in faces, shoving matches and my uncles snorting with laughter. Year after year that $20 egg never showed up. Each one that was opened had jelly beans and dimes, sometimes a quarter.
The “jackpot egg” became a legend in our family and yesterday my brother and I reminded Uncle Tom that we are still waiting for that plastic egg payday. We like to do that every year 🙂
One of the news shows I was watching over the weekend featured egg decorating tricks for the truly devious hider; granite spray paint to make eggs look like rocks, fake sod to glue to the outside…pure genius! My uncles would have loved to have employed some of those measures.
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