We are big into traditions in our family, especially holiday traditions. I have noticed, however, as our boys are getting older, that a few of our traditions have sadly begun to fall by the wayside. (I'm thinking, for example, of how we always used to make pumpkin cookies at Halloween and deliver them clandestinely to neighbors, visit the Pumpkin Patch as a family, and read our Christmas advent book together every night of December. This year we even--gasp!!--failed to make a gingerbread house at Christmastime.) While, of course, we still maintain lots and lots of traditions, I've felt especially bad about some of these fading away before our 8-year-old Caden has gotten remotely tired of them.
On the Friday night before Easter, Tim announced that he thought it was high time that we dyed some eggs. Caden made his own announcement: he had never in his life dyed eggs. What?! Who knew it had been so long? Sometimes traditions need reviving.
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| Getting started! |
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| Measuring.... |
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| Shrink-wrapped eggs?! What next? |
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| And a good time was had by all! |
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Early the next morning: no worries,
the Easter basket tradition is still going strong!
(PS Tristan was already gone serving breakfast at a shelter.) |
Cute Caden! And PS, when did Gavin start looking so much like Tristan??
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