Well, I hope wherever you are, that the sun is out and you have all your Easter goodies, for dinner all bought and you are home from the busy stores, busy, planning your Easter menu!
Here, in Vancouver, it's a lovey day, the sun is shining, but not real hard, and it's a tad cool, but then again, Spring doesn't arrive until Thursday, and if it's not getting any warmer by then, we can all start complaining!!
Everyone today, get's their Easter eggs in baskets, but when we we're small, we used our hats!! We'd lay them all out on the sidboard, in the dining room and in the morning, we'd come running to see what the Easter Bunny had brought us!! Now we didn't get the usual kind of Easter Eggs. We had very, very special and different eggs then any of our friends had. Dad, knew someone, who made chocolates and he had given Dad some of his old Easter egg molds and a pile of chocolate and told him how to make Easter eggs. Well, our eggs were the most beautiful eggs, I've ever seen and I honestly remember how I didn't want to bite into any of them and spoil thier beauty. Dad, also had a talent for decorating. (Dad had many talents that I can remember when we were kids, that those stories will come out on Father's Day, when I write about him), but he knew how to make those beautiful roses made out of sugar icing, and how to decorate them with that hard icing all around the eggs and then lovely decorations of lily of the valley on some, some had bows wrapped around them, other's had little cats, with pussy willow's for their bodies. (hard to explain that one, but it worked). Then, for mom, he made a special egg, that was spectacular. It would be almost the size of a football and decorated so beautiful, it would take my breath away. Now they were Easter Eggs!
However you spend your Easter, I wish you a day filled with joy and love, I hope the sun is shining and you can get out and enjoy the day with family and if not, then with a big bowl of chocolate eggs and even get to eat off a solid chocolate bunny ear!! Yummmm.
Happy Easter
One nice thing about getting older is the memories we have created along the way.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for this generation because life is so fast. Families are separated by miles and cousins don't grow up together anymore. Love and effort, like what your Dad did with the Easter eggs, just doesn't happen very often. We run out to the stores and buy everything. Thanks for sharing your memories, they have stirred some of my own.
Sandy
Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteThe sun is shining brightly here in Ontario...a beautiful Easter morning!
Yep....I remember coming home with Mom and Dad from the hospital when I was born...heh heh. I was so glad to be your sister that I left you a little chocolate egg!
I really AM glad to be your sister and it would be fun to be there today to share some REAL chocolate.
Hope you and Tom have a lovely day.
Love,
Sam xoxo
I'm a day late but wanted to comment on the chocolates and your baby sister's birth.
ReplyDeleteYour Dad's chocolates were spectacular - I even got some and I didn't want to eat them either but somehow they disappeared.
I remember the wonderful Baby Shower Mom gave for your Mom. I didn't have a clue where babies came from ( my Mom told me from under the cabbage plant) and that seemed to satisfy me LOL!! But I remember the shower with all the ladies present and me, lapping everything up, eating all the great food, listening to all the laughter and playing really fun games like cootie, which I'd never played before.
Lots of excitement when Roxanne was born, but let's face it Linda, she really spoiled our fun when she came along because you were always looking after her.
She's grown up now so she's okay..hahaha,,,just kidding Girls.
xxxxxx
Auntie I