When I was little, we colored eggs a day or two prior, and on Easter Sunday, we went to dinner at my grandmother’s house. THe Easter Bunny would leave baskets at my house, with candy and small trinkets that my mother brought out year after year.
As an adult, before my mother died, she would color eggs with my daughter a few days prior to Easter, and we’d go to dinner at her house on Easter Sunday. The Easter Bunny left baskets at my house for my daughter and at my mother’s house for my daughter.
Now, for example today, I went with my stepfather and his girlfriend and my sister and my daughter to a fancy restaurant for a 2 o’clock lunch. It was a price fixe thing that included appetizer, entree and dessert, and mimosas or bloody Marys. The Easter Bunny left stuff at my house for my daughter, even though she’s a teenager and no longer believes in the Easter Bunny, it’s a fun tradition. I put some candy, some trinkets, a few stuffed animals, and some small scented candles (Yankee Candle from Costco).
I didn’t color eggs this year because I really don’t eat a whole lot of hard boiled eggs, nor does my daughter.