Happy Spring - egg coloring

 

Happy 1st Day of Spring!

For many years we avoided coloring eggs and bunny type topics/activities around Passover/Easter. I didn’t want my girls to relate the really deep and humbling aspect behind the purpose of these dates to a bunny rabbit bringing them toys. It’s a me thing and I’m not judging those who do in any way... and not my purpose of sharing. I merely wanted to give a little background that my younger girls had never colored eggs. I was ever torn though over not coloring eggs. I can live without all the candy and basket frills, but there was beauty and fun in dyeing eggs and the treasure of keeping Family Tradition. I have fond memories as a child doing this with my siblings. I’ve read now of several families that color eggs on or around the first day of Spring and I was set to make this happen this year.  Oh how I wish I would have thought of this myself years ago. It was so much fun to just take the time to color eggs with my girls for a Spring activity and still keep a special tradition that I grew up with. 

And my neighbor found it funny that I asked her if I could please trade her our farm fresh brown eggs for her store bought white ones! We discovered the brown eggs don’t take to dyeing as well as white ones. We gave her several dozen extra, too. We also enjoyed a lot of stuffed eggs!   Note to self to try and get a hen next time that lays white eggs!