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What is a blog?  For us it is a short blurb that we write when the mood strikes us.  It can be first person, funny or informative. In short, a blog is whatever we want it to be. Published March 22, 2008 at 4:05 p.m.
Tags: easter, easter egg dye, dying eggs, paas

This afternoon, my sons and I dyed Easter eggs. I broke down and got a store-bought kit because I was sucked in by the idea of making sparkly eggs. I imagined pastel orbs twinkling with glitter, similar to the ones I made with my grandma a few decades ago.

I remember wearing one of her embroidered aprons, mixing vinegar and water in a little glass cup, and dropping the colorful pellets into the liquid. Both my grandma and I are somewhat artistic, so we created intricate designs with white crayons before dunking them in the dye. Once they were dry, we displayed them in eggcups as part of the Easter brunch centerpiece.

Dying eggs with my sons was quite different.

They had little interest in making designs on the eggs with the white crayon even though I tried to pitch it as a "magic crayon." Kai made a few scribbles on one, but then proceeded with what he really wanted to do: dunk the egg in every color until it was a loamy brown. Levi had no interest in the eggs whatsoever; instead he dropped a quarter and a Transformer's arm into the dyes. (I didn't notice the little plastic arm until dumping the dye down the drain.)

In the end, their fingers and other miscellaneous body parts were stained with blue and red and purple streaks. Also, glitter was all over my kitchen but somehow very little made it onto the shells, and they destroyed the box that the dye kit came in which doubles as a display unit for the finished eggs. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, I don't own a single egg cup.

I looked at our sad pile of poopy brown eggs and mentally compared them to the beautiful orbs Gram and I made long ago. Luckily, I've become pretty good at not getting super anal about aesthetics when the boys are involved. I really try to back burner my Type A stuff and revel in the Type B-ness that's often required in child rearing.

So, I placed the eggs in a pretty blue bowl from Guatemala and set them in the center of the kitchen table next to a vase full of lilies.

Happy Easter.

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Posted by wfbgal on March 23, 2008 at 11:43 p.m. (report)

LOL - Type "A" personality and you too have boys! Why is it they always spoil whatever we are trying to re-create from our childhood memories. Can you imagine Martha Steward with a boy? Fortunately, my son does enjoy coloring Easter eggs - but at his younger age I think he too used every color of the rainbow. I know it is a little late, but my friend puts regular crisco oil on her eggs. She wipes them with a paper towel with the oil and they have a beautiful shiney look to them. On another note, ever year my son has a friend come and color eggs with us. He has been doing it for three years now with us and is 12. Prior to that, he never colored eggs before. Brown or colored, a good mom does do constructive activities with their kids! I bet they looked beautiful next to the flowers.

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Posted by Red_5 on March 23, 2008 at 1:01 a.m. (report)

Transforms RULE!

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Posted by Bella on March 22, 2008 at 8:23 p.m. (report)

they sound like typical little boys!!

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