Colored eggs - delicious and decorative!
I just wanted to share some Easter cheer with you all now that the holiday has come and gone and we’re all recovering from ham and chocolate hangovers. The picture above is the artwork of my 12-year-old sister, Allegra, and my mother. Every year they dye hard-boiled eggs and decorate them with rubber band patterns, stickers, and hand drawn bunny rabbits. When my other siblings and I were younger we carried out the same tradition. Now that I’m older and out of the house, I come home for the holiday weekend to a dozen (two are missing above) rainbow-colored eggs that are carefully hidden on Easter-eve night.
I’m 25-years-old and yes, I still do Easter egg hunts. I have a 12-year-old sister, so she is my excuse to tear the house apart in search of the most eggs. My 23 and 21-year-old siblings get just as competitive as I do, so my parents got a kick out of us hip checking each other out of the way to find eggs. I came in a close second place to the 12-year-old.
Easter feast 2010
The highlight of the day, however, was the massive Easter feast. My mom whipped up a 16-pound glazed ham along with her famous broccoli casserole, mashed potatoes, and homemade apple sauce. And I was in heaven.
With each year that passes, I find that the best parts of holidays like Easter are those spent with family. As a kid, I looked forward to my chocolate-filled Easter basket and over-eating hard-boiled eggs until I was sick. But as time with family becomes less and less, I’ve come to value little things like sitting down to a family meal.
Bringing home leftovers to a sparse fridge is also a bonus.
My mom turns cooking into an art
Do you have any Easter family traditions of your own? I hope you all had a nice holiday and got to spend it with people you love.
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