Easter is almost here and that means it's nearly time for Easter Egg Hunts. Our church is having one at 10am Easter Sunday morning. I think it's a BYOB affair. I'm guessing the eggs (the candy filled kind) will be hidden in the courtyard and possibly some inside the church. It really depends on the weather. Adults are invited to come at 10 for coffee while the children hunt. Should be fun. I have no children or grandchildren in the appropriate age range anymore so I am not involved in this year's hunt, but I am no stranger to Easter egg hunts. When my grandchildren were young I lived in the country on a one acre lot with plenty of trees and bushes, great places to hide eggs. I had four grandchildren and wanted to keep everything fair so I bought 4 different colors of plastic fillable eggs. Green, yellow, red and blue. Generally these came in sets with five or six of each color. The older the kids got, the trickier the hiding places. Before they started hunting I assigned each one a color and told them how many eggs there were. Most of the eggs held candy but there were always two with money in them. Usually $1.00 in one and $5.00 in one. They were young and that seemed like a lot of money to them. Every set of eggs had exactly the same prizes so no one was jealous. The nice thing was that when one person found all of their own eggs, they could help someone else. I remember lots of laughs and some frustration. One year the four of them hunted for a long time but still couldn't find the last egg. I think it was a green one. So they asked me to help. I was happy to do this but first they had to show me where they had found all the other eggs. I didn't want to waste my time hunting for ones they had already found. I did have Easter dinner to cook after all. We finally, finally found it tucked in the bottom end of a downspout, visible, but only if you bent over and looked. I was a better hider than I thought I was.
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