Easter Traditions

So Easter is just around the corner and as much as I like to think I'm someone sentimental, I can also be sort of a procrastinator, I say "I have good intentions in the morning but after the day gets going I lose my energy". So this morning, my sweet girl and I were getting ready to run some errands when the Today show hosts did one their many cooking segments, this one was with Daniel Baloud cooking up a roast leg of lamb and spring vegetable fricassee! So she says to me "mommy, if you could make that, I would eat it"..this immediately caught my attention because finding things she will eat is a daily quest for me. Then she says "mommy they said their making it for Easter, is it Easter yet?" I respond, "Easter is this weekend..", she says "So what do we do for Easter, do we decorate or eat candy or have a party..?" Anyway, I realized once again that just like at Christmas, I haven't gotten her a nice dress or really planned anything for the day which is fine but when you think about it, these are the things that children remember and cherish. As one has children and creates a family, you also must consider the special moments or traditions which inevitably shape the way the see the world...even its through colored hard boiled eggs!

Last year she was 21/2 and we did some dyeing but that was it, luckily, my sister (who has two daughters, 5 and 8 respectively) invited us over to a friends house who was having an Easter egg hunt for the kids and I was astounded at how much fun my girl had looking for little plastic eggs partially because there were other little ones running around and also because she hadn't really ever been exposed to this before i suppose. This Sunday, I hope to plan a little hunt with our neighbors little girls maybe but if not I'll have to make up for it somehow. I remember being younger and really looking forward to the days where we had cousins over for some occasion and it was an all day funday..