STORM2K

Will you and (or) your family dye Easter eggs this weekend???

Yes, we will.

No Easter Eggs or my annual Bunny Cake

BooHoooHooo

I guess I'll have to drown my sorrows in Peeps!

No and I don't believe my mother is... not sure if we will get the kit this wekk. I was more interested in watching the eggs get colored than actually doing it myself. I rare ate/eat boiled eggs.

Yep

Not likely this time.

Nope. As a kid I enjoyed it. In fact, we actually hollow out hour eggs (by a secret process) and then dye them so they last as long as they don't break or wear down. When I was a kid, I had faces drawn on them and they were actually supposed to be people, who lived in a town. Each color was a different family. The purples were the royals. I know it sounds weird, but it's what I did, so deal with it.

Yes, it's tradition in our family. We line up the coffee mugs and get about 6 or 8 colors going. Then one egg gets dipped in several colors, that's tradition also. That's the mystery egg color one.

It's also tradition that this is a Dad's thing in our home - hubby gets in on the act with our girls, now 12 and 15. Xmas time it's the girls and me baking cookies. But somehow Dad trying out new colors, getting out the blowdryer to speed things up, I guess sounded like way more fun than Mom going by the book egg coloring. LOL

We also hide them still so they can find them Easter morning. When I asked last year if they still wanted me to do that the look I got - as if to say, what? No hiding the eggs? I'll be hiding eggs I guess long into their college years.

I also disliked hunting for the eggs in the house on Easter morning. Only one of my brother's (the second younger- 3 5/6 years older than myself; I am the youngest) would participate, as far as I remember. I always got only a few, while he got the rest. I wasn't really that into it.

Of course!!!!! I love to dye eggs. My children make a mess of it of course...but it's fun fun fun!

ColdFront77 - that's too bad. Picturing a sad little boy. Awww.

In our house I precount the eggs and each daughter gets half. When they've found their half they have to stop. Otherwise the fighting was awful. One year though I was off by one I think. We hide both real and plastic (and I put candy in the plastic). I was wracking my brain trying to remember if the missing egg was real or not. I did not want to find a real stinking egg in July! We did find it but I was more careful after that. I even write it all down now.

I doubt we will dye eggs this Easter here, but I am sure my grandmother will.

No need to "dye"...they're already dead.

Bill - hardy har har - you're on a roll tonight my friend. Saw another joke you made. Forget where now. You'd be a trip to meet if we ever did get that party/picnic organized!!!!

Keep 'em coming!

LoL, they're dead at my house, too!

My dog might bury them...?

Probably not dye Easter eggs this weekend...but surely we have a prepared Easter basket for granddaughter Emma when we see her.

In my younger years...worked for a while part-time making ceramic materials for ceramic art. I "fired up" a couple dozen eggs back then in the kiln...and, hard to believe, but those darn eggs are still good as new!

Maybe I should try putting some of Eggland's Best in kiln sometime!!!

Now those would be HARD boiled! (more likely pulverized!)

azskyman

Seriously, I have long admired Russian Easter eggs; the shell emptied and a riot of colors, patterns glittering like a work of Carl Faberge...

I'd like to try just once to do that, if I could find out HOW.

It isn't like I actually wanted to "win." I was basically encouraged to 'play the Easter egg hunting game."

No, we will not be dying an eggs, but we will have a big family dinner with lots of Easter decorations.

The Lord is Risen, He is risen indeed!

My grandmother and I had the most fun this evening. We "adopted" our young neighbors Darren and Connie's two year old son Ethan. We bought him a blue basket perfect for hunting Easter eggs, and filled it with three kinds of candy, fruit, and a $5 bill (a growing boy needs ice cream money

Granny and me both had the most fun standing in their driveway watching Ethan's excitement. Of course, he went straight for the Cadbury eggs. I told Ethan he could share those with his mommy and daddy

PW

With a 7 year old Yes we are going to dye Easter eggs - the Easter bunny has done his shopping too.

She got to pick out the dye she wanted for her eggs - got one dozen - so I know exactly how many we have and make sure we find them all.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Patricia