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Why I like Easter


I got out my Easter decorations today.  I always look at each one and remember all the memories that surround them


like these little peek-inside confectionery eggs that the kids just loved. 

This one was blue but you can see how it's faded over the years.


I have my favorite candy dish to hold my favorite Hershey's candy-coated chocolate eggs.  I have my favorite ski bunny


that is from the time I use to ski before I injured my knees.  He has his permanent place on top my favorite Easter basket


 that looks like a real bird's nest.  (Those eggs are fake but again, more of my favorites.  I display them all year in a cute little basket but at Easter, they get the honorary place in my favorite Easter basket.)  I also have favorite egg holders


that get a spot at each place setting for Easter dinner.


You can see they are not perfect, a little quirky which makes them unique and that's why they're my favorite.  I also keep my favorite Easter necklace in a permanent place in a clay bird's nest made by Lauren with little clay eggs
I don't wear it anymore but it is really cute and it has little bells on it.  Along with Lauren's clay nest, on Easter I always get out her little bunny family that lives in a carrot.


I still display my favorite Easter card I got from my sister, Carol, in 1984.


On the back it reads:

Bunny has been busy
Since in the early fall
Planting, raking, weeding
With no time off at all
Now Easter's come
the flowers bloom
In colors bright and gay
And I send them on to wish you
A Happy Easter Day

Let's not forget the Peeps.


I must get Peeps every year so I can make my bird's nests


which I made tonight.  I've got my Easter lily
who's sweetness is flooding our house with springtime fragrance.  Smells so good. I also have some springtime flowers for Easter (which I bought at the store since we only have a few daffodils in yard right now.)

I'm still experimenting with a table center piece and trying to use our chicken eggs...natural-style Easter eggs.

And then, not to forget, the NCAA basketball tournament is going on this Easter

(last year it was The Masters)  Each season is marked by a sporting event going on.  And Bruce gets to lick the bowl of the bird's nests!



A perfect spring evening.  

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