Easter on Steroids

We went to our friends' home to do the whole Easter thing up right with their two teenage girls and one boy that fits right between you two rabblerousers. So three boys and 141 eggs. Oh yeah, that's right 1-40-1. Some were real eggs that we had a blast decorating and the rest were plastics that we filled with mind-altering chemically inhanced sugars and a purse full of coins. I figured out why my purse was so damned heavy: I had about $15.00 in change floating around in there plus a few assorted rocks (I kept the rocks). Once I unloaded my...uh...load I felt the tension leave my shoulders immediately. So Easter was blessed if for that reason alone. I only slightly missed the jingle in my step this morning.

It was fun finding places to hide 141 eggs for people under 5ft tall. I kept wanting to put them all up in trees because I got the plastic pastel set that came with these kick-ass green ones that were the exact shade of green as our friends' apricot tree's leaves. Dad thought that was mean (to you? to the tree? I never really got an answer on that one). Mean and funny tow a thin line with me. And it's not that I wasn't loved enough as a child (though I wasn't so maybe it is)...it's just because I am not really being mean. You can't hide an egg "meanly". Can you? So I might put it up a 10-foot tree in the crook of a branch masked by two nearly identical spring leaves. And so...that just might be the plastic egg with the rolled up money in it. I still fail to see the problem. As I see it, you can hide things in a difficult location but geez, since when was a little blood, sweat and tears asking too much when it comes to getting what you want?

So I'm not Captain Obvious when I hide the loot. I should think you'd all feel lucky that I didn't go with my first mean little thought: putting rolled up toilet paper in some and money/candy in the others.

And maybe next year if it's not so chilly out I can talk your dad into letting me hide them my way: buried under about 4 inches of soil, some peat moss, a little mulch and then topped with a nice potted plant.

You'll need to start hunting early that year......