Easter Morning in the Hood

This will likely be the last year of hiding Easter Eggs for the kids.

Calib and I boiled a dozen eggs and colored them the old fashioned way last evening.

None of the local stores sold fancy egg color kits, so we had to settle for simple food coloring, hot water and vinegar. The eggs came out quite colorful though. We only lost one egg in the rapids of the boiling water. Eleven were still suitable for shading.

Easter morning was cool when Calib was 5. At 9 he still insists on coloring eggs and waiting for the Easter Bunny to hide them so that he can still collect his $3 per egg. He’s still sleeping, but I hid the eggs well this year. I can’t afford it if he actually finds all eleven of them.

One of the eggs is in the coffee bean grinder hidden under a pile of freshly powdered beans, another is in the cat dish, buried under mounds of 9 Lives and the other colored ovals are placed according to their color, in hidden camouflaged places throughout the apartment.

Calib’s brother Eric didn’t hang around for Easter morning this year. He’s 14 now with a girlfriend. Childish times like Easter morning are now a thing of his past for Eric. I bet he and his girlfriend colored a few of their own eggs last night.