Easter egg decorating. The one time a year I buy white eggs. Though every corner in town has piled high a mound of dirty, ice-flecked snow, and the skies are most often still a dingy gray, Easter is coming. At least I think it is. Last year I recall making a pot roast on Easter and having it be a, surprising to all, 75 degree day. I think about the menu now to prepare. Warming foods. Heavy foods. After all, there are some flurries swirling about as we speak. But then the weather could do a total 180 like last year and there we are, sweating over our Martha Stewart pot roast and roasted vegetables in a hot kitchen. Best laid plans.
March is supposed to be in like a lion, out like a lamb, is it not? Whenever I think of that oft said phrase, I see myself walking through the halls of my Catholic primary school. I remember the bulletin boards being decorated with a fierce (grade school level fierce) lion and a gentle lamb when March rolled around. In New Jersey, the phrase was a little more promising, but 300 miles north, here in Boston, it’s not necessarily true. 
But we’re beckoning spring and Easter eggs are a good place to start. The vinegar smell and the dyed hands and the little Paas dye tablets dropped in each bowl. So many years I thought, “I’m doing something different this year.” A special Ukranian egg decorating project or natural coloring but this year, I didn’t even pretend I was going to do something else. Paas classic colors it was and Paas classic colors it shall remain. Why deviate from the classics? 
Anders and Parker are big into holding heavy things (heavy is relative; they’re 3 and 6.) over their head right now to show how strong they are. Anders was holding a toy alligator over his head a few hours before we did Easter eggs. Suffice it to say, he dropped it on his face. That’s why his lips are extra pouty here. Poor little bub. He got lots of kisses.
Ta-da! Honestly though, I think the classic eggs always end up being my favorite. Or am I trying to just make myself feel better for my laziness/lack of creativity?
Parker’s behind the camera!
{P.S. my jacket; a new favorite}
I love the look of the dyed Easter eggs! Super cute colours! 🙂
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I grew up in an area surrounded by layer-hen chicken farms (essentially, egg farms) and did you know that the only difference between white and brown eggs is the shell color? They’re identical nutrition-wise. Brown eggs come from chickens with brown earlobes 🙂 and they cost more because the breeds with brown earlobes are generally a little bit bigger chickens so it costs more to feed them… 🙂 just a fun fact for you! And maybe a money-saving tip on the grocery bill!
that it corresponds to their ear lobe color is too funny. i would totally buy white, but the only free range and organic feed ones at our store are always brown!
Interesting! The ones in our area are white! Happy Easter to you and your family 🙂
I remember dying Easter eggs with my Grandmother – but she would never ‘waste’ and she would poke the holes through the eggs and blow the insides out so she could use them. I remember it taking FOREVER and being such an awful task that I have yet to dye any eggs because that’s all I can think about (although I realize I don’t have to do that).
Love this! Ps. You saved us a trip to Portsmouth this weekend and we went to Lexie’s in Newburyport instead!!! And it was amazing like I expected it to be.
The more you know 🙂
There is something to be said about carrying on a tradition…and the nostalgia those Paas tablets bring!
You are one brave mama having that beautiful white runner next to the dye!!
oxiclean is always close by… it’s already been stained (and had the stain removed!) with tomato sauce!