I don't think I ever remember so much snow on an Easter before. But Easter was early this year, and Spring was late. Is late. Still has not arrived, I would say, and it's now been a week since Easter already. We didn't let any of that dampen our Easter celebration last weekend, though. The sun was sparkling off the snow as all the kids ran around the snowy town green collecting the colorful plastic eggs scattered around like confetti. Had the eggs been white, the kids might have been in for a real hunt this year, but if anything the bright eggs were easier to see on the snow and the whole affair lasted about 5 minutes. Grandma Sally barely had time to snap a few photos of stylish little miss collecting in her gingham dress and coat. Haley and Aiden each collected a basket full, and went home with some new candy and mini toys.
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| In their Easter finery- Aiden's collard shirt "burned" or so he says! |
Later that morning, Micah, Becky, Phoebe and Fisher came over for the day. We staged a second egg hunt indoors since Pheebs and Fisher missed the first one, and everyone filled their baskets again. After that the kids ran around the house like crazy playing with toys in Aiden's room, Haley's room and the playroom downstairs. Easter dinner consisted of baked ham, freshly ground horseradish (holy sh*# that stuff burns your eyes just to look at it!), roasted root vegetables, salad, and (of course) lots of deviled eggs. I love our chickens, and the eggs they make, and those eggs even look totally cool dyed even though they are brown... but man, those eggs DO NOT peel well. The fresher the egg, the harder it is to peel... something about the thin layer of albumin sticking to the egg instead of the shell. Once the eggs have dehydrated for a month or so (like store bought ones) they peel fine, but we never let ours sit around that long. The kids eat hard boiled eggs all the time, so I knew they'd be hard to peel, but deviled eggs just don't look right if you only have a few bits of white left to pile your yolk mix on! So I did some research online and attempted two trials- I boiled one batch of eggs with a teaspoon of baking powder in the water, which was supposed to make them peel easier. No dice. They were just as awful to peel as always. And, I tried baking my hard boiled eggs in a muffin tray instead of boiling them. The first batch i tried this way was underdone (runny whites on one side of the egg, firm on the other) so I upped the temp and the time and the second round was fully done. They did peel just a bit easier, but they also had nasty brown spots on the whites where the eggshell was in contact with the muffin tray. Luckily no one noticed since they also had pink, blue and green spots from the Easter dye. Anyway, the deviled eggs were a success, even though Micah sliced them the wrong way ;P
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| Mom made these smocked dresses for the girls- they looked so cute together in their matching gingham! |
After our afternoon meal, some of us took the dogs for a walk up to Clarke's lookout. The view of Lake Sunapee and Mt. Sunapee was stunning on this crystal clear day, and we could see people out "snow-sailing?" - parasailing with skis or a snowboard, we couldn't tell which. It looked like fun, but we just wanted to sit in the sun and digest after eating so much. On Sunday (the real Easter) we took Mom downhill skiing for the first time in 20 years. It was warm and sunny, and totally empty since I suppose everyone else was at church that morning. Haley got to show her Grandma Sally the ropes on the South Mountain at Sunapee, and mom did great- just like riding a bike, you never forget how. After a quick lunch in the lodge, we all decided to take the high speed quad up to the summit and ski down, Haley's first time tackling blue trails since that disastrous single run we did together at Sugarbush when she was sick. It was a totally different story this time- she sang and chatted all the way down, Baby Jaguar on the prowl, watch out! Aiden zoomed down like an old pro, and I can tell it won't be long until Andy and I will be left in the dust by these two. All as it should be. I just hope that really WAS our last weekend skiing... it's mid April, people!
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| Haley, post-skiing |
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