Resurrection Day 2010
We had a wonderful day of celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Christ. We first went to church and had a wonderful and challenging worship time. We got home and we had a scavenger hunt of clues to reveal a big chocolate egg with chocolates on the inside. We also decorated our eggs while waiting for some friends to get out of their church service and come over for lunch.
I was planning on making Lithuanian style eggs. You cook the eggs with onion peel and then scrape away to form your designs once they are cool. Well, our little sewing pins didn't do the trick. I finally got out the sharpie markers to color our pretty brown eggs (from the onion peel.)
We always talk about how the egg is a symbol of the resurrection because on the outside it looks like it is just dead, or a rock, but on the inside is all this nutrient - all this life - whether it is an unfertilized egg we eat or if it is fertilized and hatches a bird. We decorate it to celebrate that death and life. We are to die to our sins and live for Christ because He died for our sins, taking the punishment, and He rose to life again, conquering death forevermore! Hallelujah!
After 2 different families came over for the day (at 2 different times), it was still light enough for the kids to do their hunt finally. They had been hiding the plastic ones on their own with their friends, but now it was my turn to hide them.
Sadie finding one!
Cosette
I always have to tell the boys to slow down and let the girls find them!
In fact, we hid a couple again to let Sadie "catch up" on the egg count.
Totally unrelated, but didn't have another page to put this on. I always used to put olives on my fingers too. Sadie's the only one of the kids that likes black olives though, so I don't have any other kids who have done this!