So it was Saturday afternoon until we sat down for our "treasured" annual egg coloring spectacular.
I had been to the grocery store that morning and came home with 36 eggs....18 for coloring (3 kids x 6 eggs each) and the rest for cooking and baking. The oldest two were with their grandma while I went shopping. I called and reported that I had picked up 2 coloring kits....
....and 6 eggs each. Chaos ensued. Apparently the world itself was near collapse. "6? Only 6? But, Momma! We need at least a dozen each!"
Never fear! Grandma to the rescue! They were in town and picked up another 18 eggs. Yes, seriously.
Sigh.
I went ahead and hard boiled all 36 of my eggs before they got home. Broke or seriously cracked 9. Yes, 9. Apparently I am an impaired boiler.
Of course it could have something to do with the fact that something ( don't ask....I have NO idea WHAT it originally was) found it's way onto my stovetop and managed to catch on fire with near 10-inch flames racing up the outside of my giant stock pot and turning it completely BLACK. Sigh.
So, now we have 9 eggs each.
They were ready and waiting when the kissers arrived home. Yippee! Yay!! Big-time excitement!! Sissy is super-thrilled about the tie-dye kit! Bubby loves the dinosaur kit! All set to go, right?
Wrong. Baby Boy walks to the tune of a different drummer. It was an amazing accomplishment to get him to put just ONE egg in a color. Apparently not a big fan of coloring eggs.
Sigh. 8 eggs for the momma to color.
Bubby colors 7 of his...all solid colors to turn into dinosaurs.
Sigh. Now there are 10 eggs for the momma to color.
Sissy colors 1 egg with the tie dye kit. She decides that's too much trouble. (Let me tell you straight up she is right!!).
"Momma, can you make me another tie dye egg?"
Sigh. Momma's count it now up to 11. Sure am glad we picked up all those extra eggs!
Finally, we were done!
My reward? Rainbow colored hands for sunrise church service this morning, no matter how many times I washed them.
Sigh.
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I feel your pain! We did ours Saturday too. But you should be happy - at least your kids didn't spill the blue dye on your beige rug....and now it's got pretty blue drops & stains all over. That was fun! lol
ReplyDeleteSeriously - your kiddos did a good job, their eggs are pretty! The tie dye ones especially, but I can imagine those are a pain to make! Hope you had a great Easter, and thanks for stopping by my blog this morning! Following you back!
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that looks like so much fun!
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Looking good! and yes they look very proud indeed!
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You are such an awesome mom, and you had the hands to prove it. You should have taken a picture of them and put it in each kid's scrapbook so that they could always see how much you loved them "back in the day."
ReplyDeleteToo funny! At least yoo were the good mom who bought white eggs for them to dye - mine complain every year that our brown eggs never look as nice!
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