easter for us

Easter for us means getting up extra early, getting dressed and waiting (im)patiently for every one to hurry and come outside to hunt for egg filled baskets. 

It means hunting under bushes and flower patches, in low growing shrubs, around any grassy tufts or hillocks and definitely in the veggie patch. You just never know where that Easter bunny hid your basket while you were sleeping!  

All of us join in - from the oldest to the very youngest...and every one has their own special basket, filled with chocolate delights and coloured hard boiled eggs. Well, maybe the youngest doesn't....yet!! 

We search and if we are lucky we find our own without too much searching..... but if we find someone else's we quietly walk away and let them have the joy of finding their own basket hidden amongst the greenery. 

There's always a little something else in the basket too - a small handmade notebook or a windup buggy or even a pretty hair clip.

Most of us stayed awake, but for this little one it all got a bit tedious and she had a quick nap! 

When all the baskets have been found - but before ALL the chocolate has been consumed - we head indoors for a breakfast feast.

Cheeses, olives, crusty breads and fresh hot cross buns, washed down with hot chocolate and more chocolate bunnies then we need! Good food mixed with love and laughter, family and friends. 

Of course, this year we also had a new Elf to cuddle and admire and squeeze and kiss. 

Oh yes, I l.o.v.e family celebrations.