On my early walk this morning, I thought I might see neighborhood kids, hunting for eggs in the wet grass. But only a few cats greeted me.
Have backyard egg hunts gone the way of door-to-door Halloween trick-or-treating? Replaced by organized events that draw thousands of kids?
As kids, we spent days, coloring or dying eggs that we left in a basket for the Easter bunny to hide. Once we found the eggs (along with the prize sugar crystal or chocolate egg), we spent the remainder of the day, getting our parents to hide the hard-boiled colored eggs. . . . again and again.
Maybe everyone has tired of the egg hunt. Maybe some kids have lost interest. . . . When my two kids noticed the large, life-size bunny wore a plaid shirt under his costume, they began asking questions. A few years later, they opted for chocolate eggs but skipped the hunt.
“Are you going for an egg hunt today?” I asked my son and his fiancée today, Easter Sunday.
“No, Mama, we’re too old for that. We're going to a brunch.”
Maybe the backyard egg is a thing of the past. But some traditions remain--the Macy's Easter Parade on Easter Sunday and the 134th Annual White House egg roll, which takes place on Monday, April 9.
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When Easter fell early in the spring, we had problems with egg hunts in Ohio. We still had spring snowfall, and the children were able to find the eggs by following the adult footprints. What a useful life skill!
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