Easter

Every since we lived in New York we have had a family tradition of hunting for easter eggs on Easter Sunday morning.  In Germany we didn't have a yard so I hid them around the apartment.  Also, we have a tradition of putting little toy animals in them instead of candy.  Today was F's first Easter!  F and M went hunting in our front yard (T said he was too old for this and slept in).

F is uncovering a mostly buried easter egg. 

Above M is sitting on a couch going through her easter egg loot.  We carried the couch into the driveway to clean it.  We got it for free; I mentioned it in an earlier post; some neighbors put it out on the roadside for garbage pickup.  It was covered in mud and dog hair.  I scrubbed it (you can see the brush on the arm) and cleaned and scrubbed and cleaned.  Then I sprayed it down with febreze and let it dry.  Then V and I wrestled it up the steps and into our living room. 

Above are the sisters on the couch.  F loves flopping around on it.

I stayed with a Greek family for a short while, while living in New York.  They showed me their tradition of tapping boiled eggs for luck on Easter so I have started doing this with the kids.  Each person picks a boiled egg and you tap them against each other, if yours breaks you are out.  Everyone with an unbroken egg keeps going until one person is left.  This year it came down to V and F.  However, F whacked her egg against the top of a box and broke it before V got to her with her egg, so there are two winners this year.

V also picked up some fresh flowers to decorate the house.  Our neighbors that are moving gave us a small bathroom waste bin that worked perfectly as a temporary vase for the flowers. 

And last of all, after sundown the power went off again.  But our solar charged battery was set up and ready to go so I plugged in a lamp and we listened to the radio.