Easter

Easter has come and gone. My fridge is filled with chocolate Easter eggs and parts of Easter eggs. Soon we'll be using the chocolate remains for baking - if my family ever tires of eating chocolate.

This year we made gift bags of Resurrection Eggs for all the families in the church. We used 7 eggs to countdown the week before Resurrection Sunday. Each plastic egg had an object or a picture of an object and some scripture to share part of the Easter story from God's Word. My kids really enjoyed opening an egg each evening as we had family devotions and reading about the next part of the Easter story. It really helped to keep things in perspective and hopefully we have a new family tradition.

Because we always get together with Dean's family on Easter Sunday for a meal and a chocolate egg hunt, we do not get our kids chocolate eggs for Easter. Our kids are pretty much guaranteed 3 eggs - which is really more chocolate than they could eat. Dean and I used to get the kids a 'spring-like' gift...kite, skipping rope etc. Last year I started doing my own Easter egg hunt. I made up some coupons/vouchers for things like: 'get out of one chore free', 'meal of your choice-from our kitchen', 'breakfast in bed', '1 glass of diet coke at dinner'....etc.
I also put some pennies and five pence pieces in the eggs for the little ones.
I hide these all over the house and off they go! Last year I made sure that everyone got one of each voucher by colour coding the eggs. This year I only differentiated between the older ones and the younger ones. Solid colour - younger & Multi coloured - older. Once all the eggs were found they could bargain and trade for vouchers that they wanted.


Getting ready to hunt. Aleah is making sure her eyes are open and looking!


Sam thinking about his next move!


Levi making a discovery.


Abby scoping out the kitchen.