Easter egg hunts are evil

[olmue]

We've only been to one other one, and I should have remembered. But the city did one right next door to us, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to walk on over. Yeah. Firstly the kids were divided by age, so I had to send my 9 YO and 6 YO off to different sections of the field on their own. Secondly, even though we were there when the horn went off, we were at the back. I understand separating the kids so the big ones don't grab all the eggs before the little ones have a chance. But seriously? The parents are the worst of all. My 2YO found zero, but the people just ahead of us had like, ten. If you're going to be in charge of one of these things, you need to put the little kids in a penned-off area and keep the adults outside. That, or tell everyone that when they've found four or five eggs, they're done.

So then we had to find the 6YO, and luckily she'd found one. But the 9YO wasn't in the meeting spot. So we went around the corner to her field and found her standing there, the last kid, crying and talking to a police officer. Yep, she'd come up with all of zero as well. I'm glad someone found one that we could split among the kids, but I'm thinking that this is the last egg hunt we're ever going to!

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[patty1943.livejournal.com]

We used to hide them around the house for Jack. I'd hardboil them, Jack and I would decorate them with magic markers, then Bob and I would hide them. I remember one extra pretty one Bob hid on the top of a door we never closed. A few days later I cracked it to eat and it was raw! Apparently I hadn't hardboiled that one! I never understood the big outdoors hunts. A few years ago Little Jack and his friend and I made jeweled plastic Easter eggs by gluing sequins and beads to them.

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Eek, I bet finding that raw one was a surprise! My dad used to hide them for us sometimes. We had a hen who laid pale blue eggs, and those were always fun to find. I think we'll have to stick to home egg hunts from now on.